Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fifth inning. Crocker got his base on Wadsworth's error, stole second, but was put out in a ridiculous attempt to steal third. Baker fouled out to Wadsworth ; Phillips made a pretty three-base hit between left and centre, and scored on LeMoyne's splendid home run over the left fielder's head. Tilden and Allen each reached first on errors by Shedd, but the latter was forced out at second by Smith. Brown failed to score, although Durfee reached second base on Phillip's fumble, and Seagrave's hit. Harvard, 4 ; Brown...
...Cambridge University games, recently, the mile run was made in the splendid time of four minutes and twenty-seven and three-fifths seconds...
...this should be called the prince of cinder paths, and we will explainwhy. It is a quarter mile in circuit, and down one side runs a 220-yard straightway. It was built last spring, and with a season's frost, should, by May 24th, with proper care, be in splendid condition. Its sides are 150 yards straight, and its curves 70 yards. This latter is the only drawback. But the straight do a great deal to offset this. The 220 yard straight is about the best part of the grounds, as, when two champions meet on the scratch, there will...
Many of our students before entering college, have been accustomed to take a large amount of exercise in rowing. That is to say, they have been wont to go upon the water in some ordinary Whitehall or lapstreak boat for an afternoon's pull, which gave them not only splendid exercise, but also a great amount of pleasure. When these men enter college, some, of course, obtain seats in their class boats, but the great majority are obliged to forego their favorite sport until the summer vacation, merely from the lack of opportunity for exercise afforded by our present boating...
...next year, if this custom becomes fixed. Would it not be possible for the four captains to make an agreement to row but once a day? It has been claimed by the students that they can manage athletics without the interference of the faculty. Here is a splendid opportunity to prove it. If some action is not immediately taken by the students, we may, at any moment, be put under another interdict by the faculty, in which the majority of students would probably concur...