Word: rains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...practice game which was scheduled with the Baltimore Country Club for Wednesday afternoon was also postponed on account of rain. A game was arranged, however, in place of the regular afternoon work, with the Washington...
...University nine played but one scheduled game on its Southern trip, as the date with Georgetown University was cancelled on account of rain. All the men returned last night in good condition and but for the unfavorable weather the trip would have been a success in every way. Practice games were held morning and afternoon under the attention of Dr. Nichols and B. H. Hayes '98. The team showed improvement, although at times the weather was so hot that it seemed to take all the snap and life out of the playing. The batting has perhaps shown the most decided...
...spite of the heavy rain yesterday, the University track games were held as announced on Holmes Field. Although the track was very heavy and fast time impossible, Mr. Lathrop wished the team to be prepared to meet similar conditions in outside meets. The chief value of yesterday's games was that they showed several men to be good in events in which they had never before competed. J. E. Haigh '03, who has recently done well in the hundred and the two-twenty entered yesterday in the quarter mile, and won in the creditable time of 51 2-5 seconds...
...Appleton Chapel on "The Need of Man for Religion and the Spiritual Life." Dr. Hirsch said, in part, that the ancient Hebrewa were deeply stirred by the phenomena of nature which they saw about them. The constant struggle for existence made them feel keenly the blessings sent through the rain and the growing crops, and they were not slow to grasp the close analogy between the physical and the spiritual. They realized fully that just as real hunger is essential to a right appreciation of God's bounty, so a longing for spiritual truth must exist, if we wish...
...tournament will be entitled, as Harvard Interscholastic Champion for 1900, to play at Newport in August for the Interscholastic Championship of the United States. All entries should be made to S. P. Ware, 48 Mt. Auburn street. Entries will close at 6 p. m., April 27. In case of rain on April 28, the tournament will be played on the next pleasant Saturday. The details of the College tournament have not yet been decided upon, but it will be held during the middle...