Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...discloses him in the stocks where he finds Justice Overdo and Waspe, who has been sent there for fighting. The stupid watchmen get into a fight with a harmless madman, and the distinguished culprits escape. This act is further enlivened by a fight between two gallants, Quarlous and Winwife, for the hand of Grace Wellborn...
...Both teams played wretchedly and seven errors by Harvard and five by Bowdoin were largely responsible for the scoring. Slater was nervous in the box and Bowdoin had little trouble in finding him at the necessary time. Against an easy pitcher, the batting of the University team was woefully stupid. Currier and Slater each got two hits and Leonard made a two-bagger the only time he was at bat, but the ten other men who faced Sparks made only two hits among them...
...University baseball team defeated the University of Maine yesterday afternoon in a tedious and unsatisfactory game by the score of 3 to 1. The score should have been larger, but Harvard lost several chances for runs by stupid errors on the bases. While there were several clever plays pulled off in the field, notably Harvard's three double plays, each of which spoiled good chances for runs, it was uninteresting baseball for the most part, and the slow playing of the visitors made the game drag unnecessarily...
There are two Easter stories and two others. K. B. Townsend makes a boy of eight years paint rabbits green that they may lay green Easter eggs. That is stupid...
...Freshman defeated Tufts 1909 by the score of 4 to 3. The principal feature of the game was the pitching of Bush, who struck out 13 men and allowed only three hits. He received very poor support. The Freshmen threw away a number of chances to score by stupid base-running. At bat the men were weak against a comparatively easy pitcher; there was a tendency to step away from the plate and to bat at bad balls...