Word: showings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interest shown in the Pierian of late years. He has had much to overcome of poor individual playing and listlessness. The Glee Club was at its best in its last appearance, was repeatedly encored and really did itself honor. Mr. Swarts in his "Capture of Bacchus" is able to show his clear full tones at a great advantage and was heartily encored. The quartette made a great success in "Mary's Little Wise Lamb." Mr. Carpenter's yodel will be greatly missed another year, as it has formed one of the most attractive parts of the programmes for several years...
...been proposed to keep an error column in cricket. It would undoubtedly have a tendency to brace up the fielding and show what an important branch of the game...
...management of the H. A. A. has decided to start the games this afternoon at 3 o'clock, instead of 2.30 as is customary. The meeting will be an important one. It will show who will compose the teams which are to be sent to Cedarhurst next Saturday and to New York for the Mott Haven games. The candidates have been doing good work this spring and it is hoped the meeting will show the results of it. The entries are as follows...
...Some years ago the President, in his annual report, stated that the standing of the university nine and crew was something above the average of the whole college. I have just seen some unpublished statistics at the dean's office, collected last autumn, showing the standing of the university ball nine, foot ball team and boat crew, with the three chief substitutes for each. Their average for the past year was not below, and probably a little above, the average of the college at large, and the figures show there are both high and low scholars among them. The present...
...were the entries. Bodley after clearing the first hurdle merely acted as pacemaker, running along outside the hurdles. Bell's time was 17 3-5 seconds, which beats the old Harvard record-17 3-4 seconds. Bell is a good hurdler, and if he would only practice has a show of getting a place in the New York game. The '91 twomile bicycle race came next. Brown, Bailey and Davis were the starters. Davis set the pace at the beginning of the last lap, when all started to spurt. Bailey got a bad fall as he was turning the first...