Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball games should be posted sooner than they are. Posters for the Trinity game were not out until about four o'clock Friday afternoon, and the consequence was that some men who did not remember the schedule supposed there was to be no game Saturday and for that reason made other engagements. Others, who were familiar with the schedule, supposed that as the game was not announced it had been declared off, and at least one person was put in a disagreeable position by inviting friends to the game and promising to send word Friday morning as to whether play...
...would be the best practice in the world. The nines we have met so far this year have not once called forth our best efforts. With one exception the games have all been extremely one-sided. True, we were almost beaten in the second Dartmouth game, but the only reason Dartmouth got the lead in the first place was on careless playing due to overconfidence. We must learn how to play an uphill game-to be as careful and steady when the score is against us as when it is for us. Our games with Yale and Princeton...
...members in all the proceedings of the club predicts for it a long and useful life. The play of tomorrow night is one of the noted French farces written by M. Labiche and can hardly fail to be interesting and amusing to the audience. There is no reason why the representation tomorrow night should not be highly successful and a credit to the Society...
...success of this system in the past, that this year more applications have been sent in than the Secretary is at present able to fill. There are doubtless many men in college who would welcome an opportunity for summer employment, and with the added chances, there is no reason why those who are worthy should not be satisfied. Seniors, particularly, who perhaps are undecided as to their life work, or who do not wish to begin it at once, ought to be especially glad of this privilege, which, while it gives them time to make up their minds, does...
...rest of last year's team will probably be able to play in their usual positions, but every man in the class who has ever played ball is urged to come out on Jarvis Field this afternoon at 2 o'clock, to practice batting and fielding. There is every reason to believe that all the class teams will be very evenly matched this year and that the contest will be more exciting and interesting that it has ever been before...