Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard won seven first prizes and six second...
...could be passed over without comment. In the first place, the weather and the condition of the field were such that the game should never have taken place, and secondly, the lead once so firmly established in Harvard's hands should never have been relaxed. With the score standing seven to nothing up to the fifth inning. any attempts to explain the loss of the game satisfactorily cannot but be ignored. Some of the errors may have been excusable, owing to the slipperiness of the ball, but the freshmen might at least have been expected to do as well...
...annual meeting of the New England Intercollegiate Athletic Association took place Thursday afternoon on the Fair Grounds in Worcester. The colleges represented were Darmouth, Amherst, Williams, Brown, Trinity, Wesleyan, and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Dartmouth won the championship last year, but was defeated on Thursday by Amherst, who captured seven first and three second prizes. Dartmouth got second place with six first prizes. Eleven of last year's records were broken. The events and winners were as follows: Quartermile run-Gove of Dartmouth, 53s.; two-mile run-Ellis of Dartmouth, 10m. 24 4-5s.; 100-yards dash-Keay...
...celebration of the victory over Harvard last Saturday night. The rejoicing exceeded all bounds of moderation and was carried into the small hours of Sunday morning. The hostility was intensified Monday night, the occasion being the annual celebration of the death of the sophomore societies. A crowd of about seven hundred students, headed by a brass band, marched around the campus and then proceeded to the residence of President Dwight. In spite of the repeated cheers and calls, the president, contrary to his usual custom, did not appear. The processions, after visiting several professors, none of whom responded, returned...
...inning when Ninety-one made three runs on two hits and several bases on balls. At the beginning of the ninth, things looked dark for the sophomores, but they managed to bunch several hits and, by the aid of Babbit's excusable passed balls, brought their score up to seven. The freshmen were shut out in the ninth. Bates and Slade did the only heavy batting. The score...