Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the confidence born of ten victories and but one defeat, the Lafayette baseball team will pitch camp on Soldiers Field this afternoon to cross bats with the University diamond forces. The contest, the eleventh of the season for Harvard, is scheduled to start at 4 o'clock...
Opposing the Lafayette sluggers, W.H. MacHale '31 will assume the mound duties for the home team. He is not considered as strong a twirler as his teammate Howard Whitmore '29, but if the Crimson offense gets rolling as it has in several of this season's games, he should have at least an even chance of emerging victorious from the struggle...
...financial condition of the Debating Council is admitted by its officials to be bad. One debate of the previous season brought the Council fifteen hundred dollars. A year later, after scores of other debates, some with paying audiences of five hundred dollars on the wrong side. The vote of the Council to establish a graduate advisory committee when coupled with the dubious financial status would indicate a self confession of the Council's inability successfully to run its own affairs...
...crowning event the Council announces that Harvard is to withdraw from the inter-collegiate league. Comparing at a time when Harvard has just completed a not too successful season in the league where it has formerly held many championships, this resignation is open to unpleasant interpretation. The step is explained on the ground that Harvard needs freedom for experimentation and innovation. Others may perhaps recall that the number of league debates is limited, and that outside of these contests Harvard would still have opportunity for plenty of experimentation. Furthermore, to keep the league debates as a conservative balance against radical...
Failure to hit in the pinches and the excellent control of the opposing pitcher caused the Freshman baseball team to meet its third defeat of the season by a 3 to 1 verdict, at the hands of the Dartmouth cubs, Saturday at Hanover. This game, which was the first to be played away from home by the first-year nine, broke the record of four straight wins, and enabled the Indians to keep their slate clean...