Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fiction, "Our Tolstoi Club" by Dorothy Prescott is decidedly the best, if we except the two serials. It is an amusing story, filled with palpable hits at the provinciality and gossip of a Boston suburb. How "Gay's Romance," by the author of "The Anglomaniacs," will turn out, it is hard to say; the first chapters are not uninteresting...
Brown defeated Yale Tuesday by a score of 9 to 8, in a very exciting teninning game. Stagg was batted freely. His support was excellent, but of no use against the safe hitting. Woodcock pitched a suburb game...
...Sullivan, Frost, Skinner and Crowninshield being the highest contributors to the respectable total of 54. The majority of the men played Wright's fast balls in a way that augurs well for the game with Pennsylvania on Wednesday. Longwood went to the bat confident of victory, but Garrett's suburb bowling, backed by excellent fielding, was too muchfor them, and they were disposed of for only 24. The remainder of the game was played under the American plan, and Harvard made a substantial increase in her lead, mainly owing to the careful batting of Skinner and Garrett, while Longwood...