Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college rapidly lost the position it formerly held, have elected Prof. Harrison E. Webster, instructor in geology and natural history in the University of Rochester, to the presidency. Prof. Webster graduated at Union in 1868, and was a tutor and instructor at that college until 1883. He then went to Rochester. He was the favorite candidate among the students, and his election was received with great delight. On the arrival of the new president in Schenectady last Wednesday evening he was met by the students in a body and escorted to the campus while the college bell was rung...
...This race was the closest of the day, Herrick and Payson finishing only a few feet ahead of Crehore and Amory. The time was 10 min. 14 1-2 sec. Considerable interest was added to the race by the capsizing of both the freshman canoes. Stokes and Winthrop went overboard at the stake, Potter and Williams on the home stretch...
...accompanied the nine. Owing to the disagreeable weather, not more than two hundred people witnessed the struggle. The game was to have been called at 3 o'clock p. m., but owing to some discussion in regard to coaching on bases, operations were not begun until 3.20. Harvard went to the bat first...
...second inning, both sides went out in one, two, three order, but in the third, the Harvard men, by a lucky bunching of their hits, a base on balls by Dalzell, and two or three errors of judgment on the part of the Yale fielders, managed to pile up five runs, making the score 7 to 0. From this time on, it must have grown rather dark in the neighborhood of second and third base, or else the umpire lost his eysight, for his base decisions were, to say the least, queer. This discouraged the Harvard men, and seemed...
...match between Q. A. Shaw, winner of the spring tournament, and P. S. Sears, champion in singles, was played yesterday afternoon on the Beck Hall courts. The interest of the tournament was centred in this match, and many spectators applauded the good play of the contestants. The first set went to Sears-6-1. Shaw played more strongly and won the second set -6-3. Sears won the third-6-4-and the fourth-6-3. The returns were swift and well placed, neither player daring to come...