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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...damp, chilly weather and the class races was the cause of the poor attendance at the game yesterday. The few spectators sat shivering while Harvard did its heaviest batting this year. Amherst presented their change battery, Thayer and Clark. For four innings Harvard was kept down to two hits, the two runs in the first being made on a three bagger by Campbell, an error by short, and hits by Willard and Henshaw. In the fifth, with two men out and with the bases full, Bates made a timely single to left, Campbell followed with his fourth consecutive...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Now that the faculty has no intention of allowing the nine to practice with professionals this year, it is high time to organize that second nine which was decided upon. It will be remembered that Captain Henshaw announced that one would be formed, furnished with uniforms which would act as feeder to the 'varsity and be a nine with which good practice games could be played. But, as far as I can make out, all this plan has been given up without more apparent cause than listlessness on the part of the organizers. There are plenty...
Among the rowing events of the year will probably be an international fouroared race between American and Nova Scotia professionals. The race will take place at Halifax and will be for from $3000 to $5000 a side...
...interest manifested in the class races on the Charles is growing stronger year by year, as the crowded tug boats and the alley along the river, packed full of people, will amply testify to. Although the race did not begin at the advertised time, still the promptitude and energy in getting everything ready for the start evinced by the management was such that what little room for censure there is on this score can easily be overlooked. There were two things that occurred in the race, however, which need to be spoken of in order that they may be avoided...
...extremely probable that President Barnard of Columbia College will soon be compelled to resign office owing to continued ill health. President Barnard is now seventy-nine years old and has held his present position for over twenty years. Since the beginning of this college year he has only been able to attend two faculty meetings, and has passed the winter months in Florida in the expectation of recuperating enough to be enabled to attend his college duties during the spring term. The only reason that can be given for President Barnard's clinging so tenaciously to leadership of Columbia...