Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Leeds led off for Harvard with a long fly to left field, which was well taken by Tyler. Wright got his first on an error of the third baseman, took second on a passed ball, and came home op Tyng's two-base hit. Tyng was put out while attempting to steal third. Thayer took first on an error by pitcher, stole second, and scored on a hot grounder of Ernst's which the third base failed to stop. Dow closed the inning by giving the short stop an easy fly. For Brown, Nickerson reached first by Thatcher's missing...
...second inning Latham opened with a base hit, and Thatcher got first on an error by short stop. Sawyer then struck to third, forcing out Latham, while Thatcher was caught between second and third base. Leeds then made a beautiful hit between left and centre fields, bringing in Sawyer, but was put out while trying to reach third...
...earned victory (N. Y. Times, July 16): 'He hurried down the lane to the string, which he reached, pale and exhausted, unable to stand still, and finally staggered into friendly arms outstretched to receive him.' Pitiful! very pitiful! Could any surer mode be invented of making a youth inevitably second-rate in mental, not to say moral, force, all the rest of his life? . . . . The new exercises for undergraduates serve to increase their natural centrifugal tendency to fly away from college authority, and also to barbarize their tastes and habits. College-rows, and hazing experiences, and ribald and even obscene...
...habits, honorable emulation, and pluck are inculcated should be gladly welcomed; and we should not condemn them on account of minor accompanying imperfections. We need strength of character, strength of body, strength of intellect; the first is favored by the very means which are now adopted for attaining the second...
Piermi Shell showed his grand histrionic ability principally in the second act; his acting and singing were remarkable. The Baron and Baroness de Bestfille filled their respective characters very creditably, and the latter created a grand sensation by his appearance and his song, "Duda...