Word: slips
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...attractive feature and in fact the raison d'etre of the exercises, and the more their number is reduced the less successful such exercises will be. If their number is reduced the other classes will begin to lose interest in the affair, and Harvard can not afford to let slip her single annual chance of getting the whole body of undergraduates together. Moreover the graduates who attend the exercises add zest to the occasion, and it is a positive fact that the uncomfortable conditions of past years have kept many away. Decreasing the number of seats would do little...
...resulted in a fair but close victory for Yale. Taken simply as a debate, it was the best ever held in the Yale-Harvard series. It was direct all the way through, it never hung on the wording of the question, and it was not marred by any slip of either side. Another characteristic was the intense interest aroused by every speaker and maintained throughout the debate by the exact knowledge of the subject shown on both teams, the perfect form of presentation of Harvard, and the convincing earnestness of Yale. In the rebuttals all these qualities were present...
...game was well played by both teams. The Princeton men, especially in the outfield, played their positions strongly and made put outs when hits seemed certain. Harvard, with the exception of one slip by Beale, played an errorless game. From the start the game developed into a pitcher's battle, in which Paine pitched effective, winning ball, keeping Princeton at his mercy. His own wildness, however, was fatal, for one of Princeton's runs resulted directly from a wild pitch. Jayne was hit hard, but the phenomenal catches of the Princeton outfield and his own beautiful fielding prevented Harvard from...
...game as a whole was very disappointing from the Harvard standpoint, for it showed that the team have not yet got rid of their slip-shod style of the past week, and that they can not hope to make a creditable record without a decided and immediate improvement...
...members of the Ivy Committee, have been in correspondence over the theft of the ivy since it became known and have decided to plant another of the several slips from General Lee's grave which were originally sent and also on a proposition of Wallace Bruce '67, a slip from the grave of Theodore Winthrop. the poet and writer, who was one of the first Yale officers to meet death in the Union army. The planting of the ivies will be made a notable event and the plan of having Ex-Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina, deliver the oration...