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...preliminary Boylston Prize competition held Saturday the judges chose thirteen men to speak in the final contest next Thursday. Those chosen are: A. A. Bryant '97, J. P. Cotton, Jr., '96, C. Dickinson '96, C. F. Gregg '96, H. B. Huntington '97, S. Kennedy '97, A. Hahlo '96, R. B. Sprague '97, F. R. Steward '96, R. C. Thomas '96, A. C. Train '96, J. P. Warren '96, and W. T. B. Williams...
...College Nine lost the game in the second inning, when they allowed Andover to score six runs, chiefly on account of errors. Andover, however, batted the ball hard, making thirteen hits in the eight innings. Their fielding, too, was snappy and accurate, especially the throwing to bases. Arnold, after the first two innings, pitched a good game, striking out ten men, although he gave several bases on balls. Martin did decidedly the best work for Harvard, making two hits and playing an errorless game in the field. The score by innings...
Yesterday afternoon the Freshmen defeated Boston English High School by the score of thirteen to eight, in an exciting but loosely played game. The fielding of the Freshmen was not so good as it has been, and that of English High was wretched. Ninety-nine batted in much better form than they have so far this year, Thompson and Jaffray doing especially well. In the field Thompson played by far the best game and accepted six chances without an error. Farr pitched for Ninety-nine till in the sixth inning he went to pieces and Lynch took his place...
...unwise.- (a) Labor and cost would be excessive: Springfield Rep., Mar. 13, 1896, Report of the Ludlow Committee.- (1) The estimated cost is $135,000 000.- (b) The canal would not pay expenses: Forum for March, p. 21, ff.- (1) Competition of the Panama Canal.- (2) Competition of thirteen railroad lines.- (3) The smallness of the traffic would raise the toll to a height which would be prohibitory.- (c) The canal would be disadvantageous to the United States in time of war: S. Webster in Harper's Mag., vol. 87, p. 608, (Sept., 1893).- (1) If neutral, it would facilitate...
...whist match Saturday night between the American short suit team and the Harvard team, Harvard was defeated by thirteen tricks. The Harvard team was very much weakened by the fact that owing to the illness of Peck, Miller had to be substituted at the last moment. As Morrill and he had never played together as partners before, their playing was naturally rather erratic. Taking this fact into consideration, the result of the match was, on the whole, very satisfactory, for the American team was a very strong...