Word: saws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This prophesy was happily correct, though it was made in much the same spirit as that which animated a freshman, who saw an unpatriotic classmate betting against the Harvard nine on the game of the 15th, to "run around, offering odds of two to one on Harvard to the muckers, at the end of the fourth inning." It was the "never say die" of Barnaby Rudge's raven over again...
...24th saw the rivals meet again, this time on Jarvis field. After "endless preliminaries" Lowell took the bat, a little after three o'clock, in the presence of an enormous crowd." The Harvard nine, although batting steadily, fielded miserably during the first three innings, the score standing 15 to 9 against them. Lowell is blanked in the fourth, and Harvard tallies one. Lowell piles up four in runs in the fifth, but Harvard makes eight, on heavy hitting; score, 19 to 18 in favor of Lowell. Lowell finds a goose-egg in the sixth, and Harvard scores two runs amid...
...autumn of 1866 saw two games in which the Harvard nine were engaged, and both victories: over the "Beacons," 53 to 18, and the "Trimountains," 33 to 16. But although winning seven out of thirteen games, the nine lost the silver ball and the college championship...
...some years past it has suffered seriously, simply from being overshadowed by the growing college across the street. Some have thought that this meant a discouragement to science-teaching at Cambridge, but the very reverse is the case. When the school was founded, the college was narrow, and saw no propriety in allowing a wide variety of study to its undergraduates. There was no advanced teaching in physical or natural science in the college till 1871, and ambitious students of these subjects in the earlier years had to go to the Lawrence school for them, if they came to Cambridge...
...much attention paid to athletics by the first term freshmen, as it often caused their failure to pass examination at the end of the term. He favored giving them another examination before the beginning of the second term. In the increasing study of the optional branches, Prof. Johnston saw the coming university at Princeton. Pointing to a portrait of Dr. McCosh, recently painted by Munkacsy, he said he hoped it was the picture of the first president of Princeton...