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Geological Conference. Papers: Hematite Deposits near Pittsfield, Mass., Mr. J. Underhill; Inclined Topography, Mr. F. P. Gulliver; A Cane Swamp on Rumstick Neck, Narragansett Bay, Mr. J. B. Woodworth. Geological Laboratory...
...field, as large as all the grounds now in use. The soil of the new field is better than that of Norton's Field, and can be made ready for use with little difficulty. As soon as that is put into shape, work will be begun upon the adjacent swamp land belonging to the college, and this will be gradually reclaimed, until at the end of twenty years, Harvard will have the finest athletic park in the country. These grounds, too, are within only seven or eight minutes walk of the yard, and close by the Weld boat house, which...
...will doubtless necessitate an improvement. Ford's catching is daily growing better but Brownlee throws better to second base. The season has been unpropitious and college support has not been generous; besides a debt of last year's association had to be paid, - and a few inopportune rains may swamp the management financially...
...applause, and sun-darkening cloud of flying beavers." Lowell scores two runs and Harvard five; score, 25 to 21. In this inning "man or carriage in Jarvis street muffs foul badly off Smith; seeing which, Smith begins a series of fouls, one of which drops the ball in a swamp and renders necessary a new one." How like the playful habit of "our Clarence!" In the eighth, both sides score four runs, a "fat man in a carriage" stopped another hot foul. The ninth was short and gloriously decisive." Lowell makes one run and Harvard three. "Ecstatic joy and tumultuous...
...such a director the prohibition against employing any "professional" trainer would not be so severely felt. The attempt at inter-collegiate faculty regulation of athletics thus it would seem has signally failed. The Harvard faculty has blindly followed this ignis fatuus until it has led it into the swamp where it now finds itself. Little credit has resulted to the college from its efforts, undertaken, we believe, with the best motives, but lamentably misdirected and aimed at impracticable objects. We hope that the project of an inter-collegiate conference of undergraduates to meet at Columbia College the last of this...