Word: summer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young lawyer at the "Hub." receives pay for coaching every spring the wearers of the crimson at New London, in the annual race with Yale. Some other eastern colleges, however, have sinned in this respect more than Harvard. Yale kept her skirts clean until last year, but last summer Jones and Hubbard, the pitcher and catcher of her champion nine, helped the Athletics to win the America. Association championship, and Smith, the centre-fielder, played with the Bostons who were first in the League contests. Ward, the pitcher of the New Yorks, was once a student at the University...
...boat races cost more than any other kind of amateur contests because they make no money in return for the expense incurred. For this reason, any one college cannot undertake more than one or two races a year. Now Harvard is already saddled with two races for the coming summer and finds its hands full to keep its present engagements, and Yale seems to find enough to occupy all its attention to prepare for the race with us. For these reasons we think that the position taken by Pennsylvania is entirely unwarranted, and we need take no further notice...
...elms. The paths are many of them simply old short cuts regularly laid out and the slate, brick and plank walks are of quite recent construction. Of the grounds of all the various colleges devoted to men, ours receives much more attention and care than any other and in summer presents a finer and neater appearance. At the present rate of improvement, if the college only gets money enough, we may expect to see, in winter, board walks in all directions, and in summer, beds of bright flowers adorning the neat grass plots...
Considerable interest was manifested in the tennis games played last summer in England between the famous Renshaw brothers and the Clarks, because these games seemed to be a fair teat of two distinct styles of play, which may be said to be fairly representative. Mr. Evelegh, who was referee in these matches, recently expressed himself in the most unprejudiced manner as very much pleased with the play of the Americans, which, of its style, was the best he had ever seen. But he also said "that the style was entirely wrong. Against men of the Renshaw 'calibre,' they played...
...varied conditions of shade, moisture and temperature, so far as possible, demanded by the plants. The plan is fully to illustrate Dr. Gray's "Manual" which comprises the plants east of the Mississippi River and north of North Carolina. Efforts towards a completion of the collection were made last summer, and, with the stock already in the greenhouse, a pretty full representation will be made at the start. When completed, the collection will give the best possible opportunity for studying the plants of this country