Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About three hundred spectators witnessed a seven-innings game yesterday between the Tufts nine and the Harvard nine. The day was raw and windy, which rendered good playing difficult. Bean and Hall pitched and caught. Olmsted, Burt and Lovering did the best batting, and Le Moyne the best fielding for Harvard. Harvard failed to score in only one inning, the fifth. Hall was injured in the fourth inning and his place was taken by Crocker. Following is a summary of the score...
...anywhere else. In short, all you have to do is to put any mark of individuality in the background, allow them to swallow you up in their own enthusiastic conceits, egg them on to do the same, and you will gain friendships in proportion only to the raw literary material that will be showered upon you by tomorrow's mail. And now let me introduce you to Mrs. De Sorosis and Dieu te garde, while I continue my psychological investigations - by the way do not forget to tell Mrs. De Sorosis that you are strongly reminded of the French salons...
...Harvards played the Worcesters on Saturday last at Worcester, and were defeated by a score of 18 to 12. The day was raw and windy, which accounts for the bad fielding. At the end of the third inning the score stood 13 to 0 in favor of the Worcesters, when the Harvards began to guage Richmond's phenomenal curves and pounded him for eighteen hits, with a total of twenty-four. Olmsted, Le Moyne, Bean, and Lovering did the best batting for Harvard, and Olmsted's fielding was exceptionally fine. The nine has again shown itself capable of playing...
...number of applicants for the nine is unusually large, and the raw material gives promise of some fine players, with proper training. - [Princetonian...