Word: rising
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Only once did Harvard have a chance of scoring from third base and that came in the sixth inning. Haughton, the first man up, started the hitting with a three-bagger, which would have been a home run but for clean fielding. Harvard, however, failed to rise to the emergency, the next three men going out in order, two of them on assists by Jayne...
...game as a whole was distinctly discreditable to the Harvard nine. They seemed at first to be over-confident, and later, when the game was going against them, were, to put it mildly, unable to rise to the emergency...
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...great deal of credit for the good showing belongs to Fitz, who pitched remarkably well. He struck out ten men and allowed only six scattered hits. With men on bases he always managed to rise to the emergency. Another feature of the game was Scannell's batting. Out of four times at the bat he made three hits, one a double...
...loss of the Princeton debate was felt as a great disappointment here and has given rise to the discussion of a custom which seems to have arisen at Yale-that is, whether or not a man should take part in more than one intercollegiate debate, either in the same year or even in different years. The present custom seems to be that a man should take part in one intercollegiate debate, only, and this policy is not considered to be beneficial to the University...