Word: weather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Should the weather necessitate postponement, notice will be sent to the college boat house as early in the day as possible...
...meeting yesterday afternoon was a very successful one from almost every point of view. One Harvard record was broken, and had the weather been more favorable two intercollegiate ones would probably have been changed. The meeting was well handled, twenty-one events being put through in two hours. The first race was the '91 120-yards hurdle race. Bell and Bodley were the entries. Bodley after clearing the first hurdle merely acted as pacemaker, running along outside the hurdles. Bell's time was 17 3-5 seconds, which beats the old Harvard record-17 3-4 seconds. Bell...
...week. Such laxity is certainly deserving of the severest censure. The baseball season has now been open for the past three weeks, and during all this time only one game had been provided for-that with Andover, last Saturday, which could not be played on account of the inclement weather. At this rate the freshman nine may possibly be able to play four games before it will meet the team from New Haven; and still some people are so foolish as to wonder why Harvard does not win. Every afternoon, after three o'clock, Jarvis Field is for the exclusive...
...long-talked of bicycle road race has been indefinitely postponed, as the rainy weather of the past two weeks has made training impossible...
Harvard met and defeated the Trinity College nine on Jarvis last Saturday. The game was marked by no brilliant plays on either side. There was a high wind blowing and the cold, disagreeable weather precluded the possibility of good ball playing. The battery of the visitors was weak. The catcher was unable to throw to second base, which accounts for the large number of stolen bases. Trinity presented an inexperienced man as third, who was not a success. The playing of Wright and Cheritree was, considering the weather, good. The visitors scored their two runs in the sixthinning...