Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said in my last paper, the Harvard nine, confident of success, "went gaily to the fray" like the Knights of Old whom they so much resembled. Their defeat and humiliation followed, and with heavy hearts they began to labor anew...
...rang in the stables and a chocolate colored Bowdoin square car came swiftly out, escorted by eight mounted policemen and stopped in the square. There was a general stir on the part of the strikers but no aggressive action. The car was filled with students in a twinkling and went off amid the derision of the crowd. The track by long disuse had become too clogged, however, and the car, after moving a few feet, stopped, much to the strikers' delight. Two more horses were hitched on, however, and it moved away gaily around by Beck Hall, its escort turned...
...centre field "until the striker and one man got home." Harvard was badly rattled during the first four innings. During the last five, however, they turned the tables on their opponents, scoring twenty-five times to their twelve; but the game was lost, and the Harvard contingent went home very quietly and sadly. Lowell, 37; Harvard...
...third and decisive game of the series was played on the Olympic grounds at Medford, on June first. It began at 3.40 and ended at 7 p.m., being delayed by the "perverseness of the crowd, and the inability of the Medford police to keep them back." The Harvard nine went on to the field with their "tails up," took the lead at the start and kept it to a finish, blanking Lowell three times. The audience was partisan and disgusted with the game, and several times pushed into the diamond and stopped the playing. At one time, during the sixth...
...strictness. In 1869, the H. U. Boat Club was organized, and a new boat house erected, as the old one was inadequate for the needs of the students. A new association was formed for furthering the interests of rowing, and a large number of colleges entered it. This association went to pieces in 1876, and the Harvard-Yale races were in stituted which have been kept up to the present time. These races have grown to be a college institution, and severe training is required of all members of the 'Varsity crew...