Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Considering that it was the first of the season, the base ball game on Saturday gives up good reason to be hopeful. There was nothing extraordinary about the playing, but it was good steady work. In batteries we are especially fortunate this year, and all three gave evidence of unusual skill. The fielding was good, and the play as a whole was satisfactory - neither more nor less. The batting however, was quite weak, and considerable attention must be given to it. Steady practice and careful coaching are necessary...
While we cannot congratulate ourselves very heartily on the playing, yet we certainly have no reason for serious complaint. At present, it is naturally impossible to form any just estimation of the team. Nor was the opposing team of sufficient strength to enable us to judge of our prospects in the games with Yale and Princeton. But there is no cause for dissatisfaction, and that is gratifying at so early a date...
Harvard men, too, will be interested in, "The Evolution of the Forty-six Footer," because it comes from the hand of George A. Stewart, if for no other reason. Mr. Stewart speaks with authority, for he is the senior member of the firm of Stewart & Binney, the successors of Edward Burgess, and a man of no mean experience in yachting matters...
There seems to be no reason why Ninety-five should not turn out a good base ball nine. They have had all the opportunities of indoor practice which have been offered to freshman teams; it is only since the erection of the Carey Building, the that freshman teams have had such general use of the gymnasium cage. Now that they have got out-of doors, where the real finishing work begins, they are under the coaching of an experienced player. Everything but the lateness of the spring, is working with them to produce a good nine. It may be still...
...same time. And yet, we sometimes ask ourselves if they were wrong on this matter of toleration, and we are right. Oliver Cromwell expressed the real solution of this difficulty, when he said that in matters of mind, compunction can only be brought about by the light of reason...