Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is little to be said of the game today with Yale beyond wishing success to our nine. The record of the year scarcely warrants the expectation of victory, yet at times the nine has shown a strength which makes hope very natural. Yale, it is understood, can not put her strongest team in the field, and a united effort might well result in giving the first game of the series to Harvard. The University will demand its best work of the nine this afternoon, and in return will give it the best of good wishes and the whole-hearted...
Class Day is distinctly seniors' day. Its success depends largely upon our ability to keep the Yard solely in possession of seniors and their friends. To accomplish this, every possible precaution has been taken. Tickets have been made from special sketches, copyrighted and numbered, and a record will be made of the holder of every ticket that leaves the Committee's office...
...Captain Whittemore's ankle is still weak, end Dean has a bad foot, caused by his accidentally spiking himself in the Newton game. Paine is being tried at centre field. He catches and throws well and is Burgess's superior in batting, but is not a success at picking up grounders...
...interpretation of the law and the defence of his client, the advocate seeks no mean or technical success, but the truth; in the church the minister desires not first to defend his own position, but to know what is the truth; in politics the legislator or the voter thinks not first of party success and popular legislation, but what is, on the whole, in the name of and for the cause of the truth; in the intricate social problems the citizen's chief concern is not the protection of his own interests, the strengthening of his own prejudices...
...knocked the ball into the centre fielder's hands, but the latter muffed and Scannell scored. Paine got first on an attempted put-out and Rand came in. Hayes tried to steal in, but was put out at the plate by Mason. Stevenson, however, made the same attempt with success. Wrenn's striking out finished the inning...