Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...playing of the Harvard nine showed great improvement over what it has been lately, but it was still not entirely satisfactory. As long as the game was easy everything went along well, but when in the seventh inning Amherst had none out and three men on bases the playing of Harvard showed signs of unsteadiness. However the men soon pulled together and but two runs were made in the inning...
...wholly satisfactory. On the border line between two grades there must always be a number of men whose proper rank it is extremely difficult to determine. Even assuming, what it would be unwise to assert, that examinations are absolutely reliable tests of a student's attainment, there would still be the danger of his suffering from some unintentional injustice in the marking; and upon a doubtful decision of the mark in a single course, may hinge the really important question as to the grade of the final degree...
...twelve. F. Munro was very wild at times, but Harvard failed to hit him very hard. In the field Harvard did not have many chances. Wrenn let an easy grounder go by him and thus made his second error of the season. Winslow, who was back at third, was still somewhat hampered by his finger but the error he made was inexcusable. For Colgate, P. Munro at catch played by far the best game of the day. He caught his brother's wild pitching remarkably well, and his throwing to second was very accurate. F. Munro's batting...
...Universities to run even a chance of a repetition of Yale's experience since the Harvard game. Unless then such contradictions come from you, would it not be wiser to allow the feelings thus engendered to cool with time rather than to enter upon a contest with these recollections still fresh in our minds...
Should you still be unwilling to do us justice in this way we have concluded to arrange no game with...