Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Street Railroad men showed a lack of practice and lost the game chiefly through their inability to hit the ball at critical times. They were not so strong as the Amherst nine, and so the Harvard men were not pushed so hard as on Wednesday. But there is a manifest improvement in the work of the nine, and especially in the work of the infield. The men play with more snap than they did at the beginning of the week, and they seem to realize the responsibility which rests upon them...
...surprising how slow class feeling is to manifest itself in the shape of subscription towards the support of class teams. Again we have unpleasant evidence of this in the present state of the freshman crew finances. Some eighteen hundred dollars of the amount needed to meet the expenses of the season are still unsubscribed, and this when the receipts from the freshman musical clubs can not be expected to be large and when those from the nine will be practically insignificant. There can no longer be any excuse for withholding or delaying subscriptions. The freshman crew has too often been...
...batteries are now entering upon their fourth week of practice, and a marked improvement in the work of some of the men is manifest. Several of the pitchers are acquiring good control, and their curves are much more marked than at first. A dummy has been made which is placed close to the plate where the batsman would ordinarily stand. This enables the pitchers to practice throwing shoulder or low balls as they desire, and also gives the catcher practice in throwing without interfering with or being balked by the batsman. As yet only three men have been dropped...
...manifest weakness in the Hawaiian affair...
...good results of Dr. Sargent's action in calling a meeting of the athletic managers with the end of getting them to cooperate in replacing missing pictures and baseballs in the trophy room are already beginning to be manifest...