Word: proved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second game of the Beacon-Harvard series was played on Saturday before an audience of about 300, and resulted in an easy victory for our nine. The wind blew strong from the west and proved very detrimental to the batsmen. Boyden, '85 pitched for the nine, and showed up very well, but six hits were made off him, while seven of the Beacons struck out. Tilden caught during the first three innings, and was then relieved by Allen, who played out the game without an error. Brackett did not prove a very effective pitcher for the Beacons. The fielding...
...John A. Porter, an old Yale society man of '79, defends the secret society system in this month's New Englander. His arguments hardly serve to prove the system an unadulterated advantage to Yale at present...
...trustees of Columbia College have a capital scheme under consideration. Since the new wing of the college has been completed, it has been determined to considerably enlarge the library, by the addition of such valuable ancient and modern works as will prove a genuine and valuable aid to the professional library worker. Eighty small tables will be placed in the reading-room, and the electric light will be fixed so that students will have every material aid for their work...
...their conclusions were wrong. But, putting aside the whole question of foot-ball, we have still the base-ball game on our hands to deal with. Of this, we can only say what we stated in our former editorial, which the News, by its array of "facts," attempted to prove unfair. "It is evident, the News must concede, that if either team gains any advantage by playing the first game on its own grounds, in all fairness the custom ought to be that the game be played year by year alternately on the grounds of each team. This...
...year, if this custom becomes fixed. Would it not be possible for the four captains to make an agreement to row but once a day? It has been claimed by the students that they can manage athletics without the interference of the faculty. Here is a splendid opportunity to prove it. If some action is not immediately taken by the students, we may, at any moment, be put under another interdict by the faculty, in which the majority of students would probably concur...