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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...keep beside them a pleasant reminder of their college years. The view is from the marshes on the Brighton side of the Charles looking almost eastward. In the foreground at a bend of the river lies an old dismantled boat shaded with marsh grass, and beyond, removed by two bends of the river, a single masted sail boat. Trees cover the rise between the river and the highlands, and over all at the right of the centre stands the tower of Memorial Hall, and by its side the belfry of the old Unitarian church in the square. At the right...
...last intercollegiate games a warm dispute occurred as to whether T. G. Shearman, Jr., of Yale, should be entitled to use the pole owned by R. G. Leavitt of Harvard, in the pole vaulting competition. The measurers were divided on the subject; but as two are a majority of three, their decision was that the Harvard man should lend his pole. The subject, being such a novel one, has been much canvassed in athletic circles during the past week, and the universal opinion seems to be that if a man takes his own private pole to a competition...
...Harvard freshman teams, as we have often said, are 'varsity representatives. In their contests with Yale in particular they represent and are supported by the whole university. By the disgraceful action of the nine Saturday, odium is brought not only upon Ninety-two, but upon all the rest of university as well. Harvard athletics have been in so precarious a state for the past few years that everything file this counts doubly against the whole system. Had the nine been beaten in a squarely played game nothing would have been said, but to be soundly thrashed without an attempt...
...captain, when he found out that the game must be played should have had his men play their best, even though defeat were certain. Yale got six runs in the first inning This was the only inning in which Harvard made the slightest effort to play. In the following two innings Yale batted the ball over the field or made the circuit of the bases on Wood's wild pitches. In the fourth inning Brown went in to pitch and kept Yale down fairly well. Affairs reached such a state toward the end of the third inning that the Yale...
...Two base hits, McClung, Munzesheimer; first base on balls, by Sturtevant 5, by Wood 8, by Brown 3; first on errors, Harvard 1, Yale 3; struck out, Harvard 5, Yale 3; passed balls, Hulley 8, Heffelfinger 2; wild pitches, Wood 14, Sturtevant 1; flies caught, Harvard 2, Yale 4; fouls caught, Harvard 1, Yale 3; out on bases, Harvard 3, Yale 4; left on bases, Harvard 3, Yale 2; time, 2 hours...