Word: season
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...game was one-sided and rather stupid, it being perfectly evident from the very first inning what the result would be. In the last half of the ninth inning the batting of our Nine was very good. The result of the game formed an auspicious opening of the season, being 11 to 3 in our favor, as follows...
...series of years the system of expenses has been simply an arrangement of debts, so that the beginning of each year has of necessity presented a call for help to free the club from old obligations rather than make any provision for the wants of the new season. Beginning in 1874 with a debt of some $2,500, the club has been carried forward, each year keeping a representation at the Regatta, and the last year laboring under the unusual expense of two races, each requiring different boats and arrangements. The boat-builder's bills alone were nearly...
...outlay of some $600 we have the promise of theatricals and some little help from graduates. It remains now largely with the gentlemen whose names are still held on the subscription-lists individually to come forward with their payments, and by such help enable us to close the boating season with the club not only free from any debt, but with a balance in its treasury for another year's beginning. This is a position perhaps never held before, but now very easily within its grasp...
...stopped often for instruction. Every few days a longer journey is taken to give the men a chance to get together. On Saturday last the row was to Watertown and back. The speed was fair, and the men kept the boat unusually steady for this time of the season...
...Saturday, March 24, the Varsity made their first trip for the season in a shell. The crew are too heavy for the boat - last year's Fearon eight, - but it is steadier than the Blakey eight, and the crew have kept it, up to the time of writing, although there is some likelihood of a change in a few days...