Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...took our seat on the well-filled benches expecting and hoping for a close and interesting game; for, although desirous of our Nine's success, we would gladly have seen Princeton make it close and exciting work for them, as they did last year. But in this we were grievously disappointed. From the very first inning our men began their heavy batting, getting two two-basers at the start, - Princeton in the mean while piling up errors in rapid succession, - until our score reached old-time figures, while Princeton's, through her inability to hit Ernst, remained severely modern...
...fielding, had everything their own way up to the fourth inning, when, by a series of terrible errors, executed by Leeds and others, the Lowells were enabled to score six runs and tie the game. But in the next inning we again got a good lead, and all went well up to the eighth inning, when a bad muff of Wright's off a pretty throw by Dow from right field, gave the Lowells three runs and the lead. But our chances were still good until the Lowells, when about to take the field, were ordered to stop playing...
...great measure, determine their value, yet they will, in any case, surpass in quality and workmanship anything of the kind presented outside the field of college athletics. The Committee intend to award solid gold badges to First and Second places, and in every case the prize alone will be well worth the contest. The entry-book is now ready, and in the hands of Mr. H. L. GEYELIN, of the University of Pennsylvania, and already the names of prominent athletes appear on his lists. The Committee are preparing a set of Field Rules, which will be distributed before June...
...Sheldon, the Chorister of the Institute, enlivened the more serious part of the repast with well-chosen songs, interspersed with delightful frequency...
...supper was excellent, and very well served; and many thanks are due to the Committee for their pains...