Word: seem
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work of the baseball team. Last week the University of Virginia defeated Princeton by a score of 10 to 6, and on Saturday the second of the championship games was lost to Yale 7 to 5. Wretched fielding and an inability to bat with men on bases seem to be the chief faults. A thorough shaking up of the team is expected this week, as two hard games are scheduled with Cornell and Harvard respectively...
This afternoon Harvard plays her second game with Amherst at Amherst. Harvard won the first game in Cambridge on May 11, 8 to 3. The chances of winning today seem good although several substitutes will play on the nine. The batting order will be as follows...
...last game between the Seniors and Juniors there were scarcely fifty spectators present, and at no game has there been much over a hundred. Doubtless this is in large part due to the fact that Soldiers Field is a harder place to get to than was Holmes, but it seems as if men should be willing to walk a quarter of a mile or so to see their class play a baseball game for the championship. If more interest is not shown the class games will be given up in a year or so for good. Today the final game...
...charitable societies public and private fail to reach this lowest stratum.- (1) They are regulative rather than preventive.- (x) They relieve suffering rather than remove the causes.- (b) The soldier alone is willing to tackle the evil in the places of its origin.- (c) The Army methods alone seem able to stir up the most hardened to better lives.- (1) Such people can be roused only by strong appeals to their emotions, such as (x) stirring music; (y) personal pressure; (z) enthusiastic meetings...
This afternoon, at Providence, Harvard plays Brown for the second time this year. The first game, at Cambridge, was won by Brown 9 to 7, principally on errors by the Harvard shortstop. Today's game should be close, as the two teams seem very evenly matched. The batting orders will...