Word: season
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...prize bat for the best batting of the season 1877 has been awarded to Mr. Tyng, '76. It is made of mahogany with a silver plate, on which is inscribed: "H. U. B. B. C., season of 1877, prize for the best batting, to James A. Tyng. Average first-base hits, .297; average total base hits, .419." The bat for the coming season is made of ebony with a silver plate. Both are on exhibition in the window of Mr. Bartlett...
...small but select Lawn-Tennis Club was in active operation last autumn, and a Bicycling Club, we are informed, will be the event of the coming season. It is rumored that as soon as the river is open a few "boating men," who are disgusted with the management of "club system," will probably charter one of Blakey's shells for their private use; so we may expect to see before long a "gentleman-six" on the Charles. To speak of the Fencing Club and the Pigeon-Shooting Club is but to mention other phases of the same spirit of progress...
...this season of the year, when the undergraduate comes from home laden with the gifts of his fond parents and doting aunts, when tobaccopouches and match-boxes fill his trunks, it is strange that Memorial Hall should be used for lighting friction-matches...
...foot-ball season did not open as gloriously as we anticipated, for in the first match Harvard gave Columbia the worst defeat she has ever sustained." - Columbia Spectator...
...more sorry to record the recent defeat of our Foot-ball Team because we have had to record defeat for them so seldom; and after the brilliant way in which the season opened, we had hoped to keep a clean score. We have been fairly and squarely beaten by a team as strong as any we have ever met, and we are willing to acknowledge that we did not expect to see in them the great improvement they have made since our game last spring. It is not our desire to find any paltry excuse for our lack of success...