Word: strength
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...BASEBALL.- The following take the strength test today between 2 and 4: Cochrane, Whitbeck, Taylor, Hall, Jaffray, Thompson, Carleton, Nowell, Adams, Franklin, Dibblee, Jameson, Beaman, Rumery and Farr. No man can play in the class game Friday unless he has taken the strength test. All those who can, be at Soldiers at 3 o'clock; all others at four. All men named above will please meet at No. 1 Ware Hall at 1.30. Important...
Although the nine played its second errorless game in two days, the mere fact that no errors were made yesterday can not be taken as too encouraging a sign of fielding strength. All of the chances that went to the infi Iders were comparatively easy and gave no test of the strength of the nine in fielding against a heavy hitting team. In batting, moreover, the men hit with no amount of certainty, and fell into the bad rut of knocking the ball into the air instead of keeping it on the ground. Reid's three-bagger was the squarest...
...game between Harvard and Princeton this afternoon promises to be the most interesting played between the two colleges for a number of years. Neither nine seems to have displayed unusual strength in its early games and neither appears from a comparison of scores to have asserted any marked superiority over the other. The game should be a hard fought contest in which Harvard may be forced to play a stiff up-hill game although the prospects seem slightly in her favor provided she bats as well as she has of late...
...whole Harvard's strength lies rather in the field events than in the runs. Harvard has entered a large number of Freshmen
...wish to thank the team not only for the victory they have won for the University, but for the encouragement which this victory will give to recent efforts toward increasing debating facilities here and organizing debating strength. We believe that although not beyond criticism, their showing last evening both in argument and form was unquestionably superior to that of the visiting team. The visitors, we wish to thank for the unhedging manner in which they met their opponents, thus clearly defining the question and avoiding any unsatisfactory misunderstanding...