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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University baseball squad yesterday. The quality of the play was of about the ordinary average. While in the field, some little improvement was shown, especially in the work of Randall and Matthews. At the bat, the men did not surpass the mediocre standard, which they have maintained throughout the season. The substitutes were given long practice in batting, which was also very weak. The most encouraging part of the work was the final infield practice with men on bases. Although this portion of the practice was for the most part accurate, the men showed a slight tendency to throw wildly...
...fielding was also much better than in the Brown game and was characterized throughout by fast throwing and accuracy in handling grounders. Two of the three errors made, however, were very costly. In the first inning Stephenson misjudged a long fly, letting in a run, and in the fourth inning Coolidge dropped an easy infield fly, the batsman reaching first and scoring later in the inning...
...University nine has of late played lamentably poor ball. While the strength of the team at the bat has been uncertain throughout the season, it was only in the Brown game on Wednesday, that like unsteadiness in the field was noticeable. In the practice since that time no marked improvement has been shown, general nervousness having been in evidence...
...most amusing portion of the paper, and resemble sufficiently the actual state of affairs in the Hall to appeal strongly to those who board there. Small portions of "Baedeker's Harvard" and the "Dictionary of Collegiate Biography" are rather good, but the humor appears forced throughout. "By the Way" is the regular senseless collection of puns, and hardly reaches the usual low standard of that column...
...appreciation and restraint, avoiding the buffoonery so often substituted for the humor of their lines. A nice discrimination was noticeable between the impersonation of Antipholus the Ephesian and Antipholus of Syracuse. A real difference in attitude, the difference between native citizen and stranger, stood out clearly in both characters throughout the tangles of mistaken identity...