Word: season
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...University Nine played the first match-game of the season last Saturday with the Rollstones of Fitchburg. Not much was to be expected of the first game of a newly made-up nine. The game was long, and in general uninteresting, with occasional brilliant plays. The ground was execrable, and the infielders waited for the ball with but little hope of judging it correctly. Every man, with the exception of the outfielders, who did not have the opportunity, tried his hand at muffing with marked success. Hooper's pitching, as usual, deserves mention, and Tyng's line catch...
BELOW we give the list of games played by, and the averages of, the Harvard Base Ball Club for the past season...
...present arrangement of the hours for meals, especially at this season, is least suited to accommodate the majority. So long as we recognize a Tabular View, we shall have but two unoccupied hours throughout the day, and these hours, from two to four o'clock, though the best for out-door exercise, are still quite unavailable while we dine at one, for it must be injurious to pull an oar or swing a bat so soon after eating. To exercise later is to be on the river or at Jarvis at sunset, and this in October is far from healthy...
...OFFENBACH has entered into an agreement to write a grand spectacular opera bouffe especially for England. This piece will be finished during the autumn and brought out in London during the Christmas season. The subject is the story of "Whitington and his Cat." M. Offenbach will superintend its production in person...
...range of rests for itself. The upper story will eventually be partitioned for dressing-rooms. And now the crews are commencing work which will decide whether the handkerchiefs at the front shall be light blue or crimson, dark blue or orange and black. Two races are expected before the season closes; one of them to be for the graduates' cup. This prize, by permission of the donors, is to be offered in the future for club races. It is a great improvement that coxswains are to be used. Not only will this insure a clear race, but we shall...