Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Neath the dainty rose slipper, a time in disgrace...
...finer point of "coldness" than I can now boast of; but this is certain, that the rock of mutual mistrust and obstinacy they split on is still in existence for the next class to be shattered on, and it behooves Seventy-eight, if she wishes to keep up this time-honored custom of our fathers, to take warning. Already there is noticeable among men who hold a prominent position, both in the class and in the Faculty, an attempt to chill all ardor on this subject, with the hope that, being an unnecessary if not childish practice, unworthy...
...they been beaten in a close and exciting game, we could be patient and call it hard luck; but they have not even this poor satisfaction to offer. Theirs was not a defeat, it was a rout, which can only be wiped out by a corresponding victory next time. But what were the causes of this Waterloo? Dieu sait. For the numberless fielding errors only bad playing, hard luck, and general demoralization and discouragement can account for them. As to the batting - or rather the absence of batting - we must hold Carter largely responsible for the result. Not a base...
...nothing done. But Williams follows with a hit to right, and is safe because of Dow's inexcusable fumble. Smith hits safe to left, sending Williams to third. Downer hits to Leeds, who throws wild to first, giving Downer second and Williams and Smith home. Downer in the mean time tries to get third, the ball is thrown to Thayer, who, touching him, supposes him out and returns the ball carelessly to Ernst. Ernst is not looking, the ball passes him, and Downer scores, the umpire not having decided him out. This run the result of very careless errors. Leeds...
...LeMoyne (stroke); Holworthy, Bull (bow), Meyer (2), Woodward (3), A. Hooper (4), R. Trimble (5), Schwarz (stroke); Matthews, Cowdin (bow), Hitchcock (2), W. Trimble (3), Brewster (4), Harriman (5), Jacobs (stroke); Weld, P. Tuckerman (bow), F. M. Ware (2), Shillito (3), Kessler (4), Simmons (5), Littauer (stroke). The time made was: Holyoke, 5 minutes 58 seconds; Matthews, 6 minutes 1 second; Weld, 6 minutes 28 1/2 seconds; Holworthy, 6 minutes 30 1/2 seconds, the Holyoke boat being thus the winner...