Word: storming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...team were obliged to commence play in a pouring rain storm and on grounds upon which it had been raining steadily for two days. Around the catcher's, pitcher's, short-stop's, and baseman's positions were large pools of water...
Harvard won a championship game from Princeton on Holmes field Saturday afternoon with the score of 4 to 3. Owing to a threatened storm the audience was comparatively small. The college men turned out in large numbers and under an efficient leader cheered well, doing much toward winning the game. The effect of the enthusiasm was plainly shown by the way in which the nine worked during the eighth inning. Harvard won the game more by a streak of good luck than anything else. The two errors made by Princeton in the seventh cost them the game. Harvard's batting...
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony is placed by many at the head of descriptive music. The picture is most real and interesting. It is hard to conceive of any one who cannot see the merry-making justices in their joyful dance, the interruption by the storm, and the gradual clearing of the sky. The scene by the brook also gives a glimpse of the woods, with the movement of the water and the music of birds. The composition is one which can be heard often and enjored more at each performance...
...reason of the mild weather the baseball men have been practicing out-doors some during the past few days, but most of the work has been almost entirely confined to the gymnasium. Princeton will suffer a great many disadvantages from the loss of the cage, which was destroyed by storm last Commencement, and which was expected to be of such service, especially in batting. Mercer Hall has been engaged as a partial substitute, and a court for hand-ball practice has been there fitted up. This will be a good place for battery practice, but the space is too cramped...
...front of University to Holworthy? Day before yesterday water had collected in the path to the Library to an average depth of not less than three nor more than six inches. As to the flagging in front of Thayer, we all know that it was submerged during every storm of last year, while there has been no visible improvement in its condition during the storm of the last few days. As there is every reason to believe that we have not yet seen the last of winter and that this week's experience may be duplicated in the near future...