Word: two
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual base ball contest between the two greatest preparatory schools of New England, Phillips Academy, Andover, and Phillips Exeter Academy, will occur next Saturday. It impossible to predict the result of the game. The nines of both schools have undergone many changes since the beginning of the season, and neither are playing so good a game as the nines of these schools have played in recent years. Andover is handicapped by the inability of Stearns to pitch. If he were in his last year's form there would be little question of the result of the game but without...
...must speak of another subject in regard to Ninety-two, one that is of the utmost importance and involves the whole freshman class. If eight hundred dollars is not subscribed by the class within one week, the freshman crew cannot go to New London. The class has not subscribed at all readily and there has been a manifest indifference to the need of the crew for money. Up to the present time but half of the necessary amount has been obtained. The fault is not with the management which is making every possible effort to raise the money, but with...
...cannot understand such a state of affairs. Surely Ninety-two has not made an enviable record, has not given the college reason to be proud of it in any respect save in its football victory last fall! After the detestable action of its nine at New Haven, comes the announcement that the class will not support the crew. We are accustomed to regard the freshman class as one to recruit the ranks of our 'varsity teams, to fill places of importance in after college years, to keep up Harvard's reputation. But of what use is a class that...
...requisite money must be subscribed, and at once. The failure to obtain it would be a monument to the contemptible record of Ninety-two, by which the college is in danger of being once more disgraced...
...team were obliged to commence play in a pouring rain storm and on grounds upon which it had been raining steadily for two days. Around the catcher's, pitcher's, short-stop's, and baseman's positions were large pools of water...