Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...University Nine played the first game of the series for the College championship with Brown last Saturday. Owing to the absence of the first baseman of the Brown Nine, play was not called until half an hour after the appointed time. The first two innings were played in a heavy shower, so that the errors made then, on account of the soaked condition of the ball, were excusable...
...Seligman, '76, P. Tuckerman, '78, C. Isham, '76, E. R. Hastings, '78, bow. Holworthy: R. W. Guild, '76, stroke; W. R. Taylor, '77, J. R. W. Hitchcock, '77, M. Bull, '77, F. W. Ware, '79, W. E. Russell, '79, bow. The race comes off a week from Saturday...
...scratch-races last Saturday were a mere repetition of those we have witnessed during the past few years. Perhaps they were a little worse than usual. There was a series of fouls in the six-oared race, although there were two stake-boats. In the four-oared race the rowing was only tolerable. The fact is that the whole system of conducting scratch-races is bad, and we can never hope for anything better until it is changed. The crews, by some plan or other, ought to be chosen at least a week before the race. Even if the regular...
...SATURDAY morning last was rather cold and windy for rowing, but the water was not "lumpy" enough to cause any difficulty or inconvenience, as the races were rowed in the club barges. At about half past eleven the four-oared crews got into line. There were three of them...
...Saturday afternoon the burlesque "Alonzo the Fair and the Brave Imogene" was performed before an audience larger than that on the night before. The illness of the original Alonzo made it impossible for him to appear; but the part was taken at a day's notice, and performed in such a manner that the audience had no occasion to remember the hasty preparation. The part of Mephistopheles was admirably acted, and his singing was, on the whole, the best in the burlesque. Faust looked and played well, though his singing was occasionally out of tune. Imogene was surpassingly beautiful...