Word: stopping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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DEAR SIRS - Through your columns I should like to call the attention of the gymnasium authorities to the condition of that part of the gymnasium known as the cage. The only fielding practice that candidates for the freshman nine can get there is in trying to stop seven or eight grounders every afternoon. This practice amounts to very little at any rate and is reduced to almost nothing by the condition of the ground. In five cases out of ten the ball does not bound within three feet of where it is expected. It ought not to require a great...
...West End Company has refused to grant the petition presented to it to have the electric cars stop some where between Harvard Square and Plympton Street. This action can hardly be explained on any other ground than a desire to be unaccommodating on the part of the West End Company. The petition was largely signed, and it was reasonable and just. A second petition has been placed at Leavitt and Peirce's addressed to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of Cambridge who have power to compel the street railway company to regard the petition. Every man in college...
...West End Road has refused the petition of the students asking for an additional stop between Harvard Sq. and Plympton St. Another petition will be sent to the Board of Aldermen...
...candidates for short stop and the out-field number about thirty-five, of whom Wright '94, who played centre-field last year, Spooner '92, substitute of last year, Payne '95, and Rowan of the Theological Seminary, who has played right-field for Lafayette for four years, are the best...
...students should sign the petition at Leavitt & Peirce's for cars to stop between Holyoke and Linden Streets...