Word: reaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Foot-ball is too rough, cricket is too skilful a game for every body to a pire to its honors and delights, but lawn tennis is within the reach of almost any man, and of any woman under forty. As yet the game has not permeated all classes of the communiy nor will its lasting character be assured until this is achieved. What has conferred continuous vitality upon cricket and foot-ball is that they are "understanded of the people." A game that is the game of only one class, or at most of only one section of the community...
...home on a second one soon after. Jones hit hard by second base, took second on McKee's put out, Baker to Smith, went to third on Child's hit to left and stayed there as Souther flied out to Nichols at centre field. After this Yale did not reach second base until the seventh inning, when Carpenter was left on third. Griggs in the second and Jones and Hopkins in the third tried to steal second, but were promptly thrown out by Allen. Of Harvard's work at the bat there is little to be said. Smith and Crocker...
...meet will start at one o'clock from in front of University and will endeavor to make Plymouth that night. The distance, about forty-five miles, is rather long for an afternoon's ride; but aided by the moonlight there seems no reason why the club should not reach its destination between eight and nine that evening. The return trip will be made on Sunday, leaving Plymouth about ten A. M. All who desire to go will please send in their names to No. 1 Holworthy before Saturday morning...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Permit me, through your columns, to thank those who have so courteously sent a prompt reply to my recent appeal for subscriptions to the University crew. These thanks, I regret very much to say, will not reach as many persons as I could have wished. Out of over two hundred and fifty blanks sent out by me but one hundred have been returned to date. Considering the fact that two hundred of these blanks were accompanied with stamped envelopes already addressed, the showing is a poor one. The freshmen, in particular, are very slow in answering this...
...danger of such a step being taken here as has been taken by the Amherst faculty; but a consideration of results which would follow such action at Harvard, with its numerous provisions for occupying the time and attention of its students, may be of value in helping to reach a conclusion in regard to the feasibility of such actions at smaller colleges...