Word: ran
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...freshmen easily defeated the Boston Latin School yesterday afternoon. The latter team was extremely weak and consequently the game was devoid of interest. Ninety-seven batted hard and ran bases well, but their excellence in this respect was due principally to the extreme weakness of the opposing battery. The nine, however, showed considerable improvement in fielding and played a comparatively steady game. The features of the game were the throwing of Dunlop and the batting and fielding of Dean. The score...
...would require the secretaries to act in dual capacities, and would add eight full members to one branch of Congress, and that the locally representative house. He attempted to show that the first of these aspects was an unwise admixture of executive and legislative functions, and that the second ran counter to the allpervading theory of American constitutional government...
...wretched through the first five innings. Perry '97 was in the box for Harvard and was so wild that the men were given but little chance to show what they were good for in the field. Twice, however, dangerous indecision was shown by the fielders-once when three men ran for a fly and no one touched it, and again when Hapgood ran into Paine. The noise which the "Tech" supporters made may however, have prevented the men from hearing the voice of the field captain. The encouraging features of Harvard's work were the backstop work of Scannell...
...good will ! - And where was the grand, concentrated Harvard cheer, that should have spoken farewell? And why did the orchestra crash "Fair Harvard," and the conductor wave an appealing baton to absolutely silent and unresponsive hearts and throats? Those of us who remember Harvard boys when their blood ran crimson and ran swift, did not recognize the genus that in irreproachable claw-hammers and faultless ties patted well-gloved hands together in rythmic applause that night. Harvard boys? Not a bit of it ! Young gentlemen from Dr. Blimber's own academy, taking an evening out, in charge of Miss Cornelia...
...mile run Orton, the American champion, started out too slow to catch one of the limit men, but ran a close second to the winning time...