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Harvard played an active game all along in the fielding work, but lost several good chances to score from poor batting. As in Tuesday's game nearly all the hits were into the air. Hovey did not play particularly well, losing all but one of his chances for assists, although he had some very hard balls to handle...
...pretty race from the Harvard Bridge down to the finish. The crowds along the wall and on the bridge cheered strongly, while the sophomore sympathizers on the grand stand, nearly went wild with joy when Ninety-four was seen to lead by a length. Both juniors and seniors now began to quicken their stroke perceptibly and the freshmen for a while showed a tendency to jab at the water, causing more or less splash, but soon recovered themselves. When the crews reached the stake boat, half way from the bridge to the Union Club, Ninety-two, Ninety-three and Ninety...
...street. The management has reason to believe that a number of men in college have a mistaken idea about going to the performance. It is by no means Hasty Pudding men alone who are expected to make up the audience. Everybody who cares to see the performance and help along the crew is very welcome, whether he be a senior or a freshman, a college man or a townsman, a member of the Hasty Pudding Club...
With the score three to one against them Harvard pulled along until the seventh. Two men got out, and then Hovey made a single out to left field, stole second and went to third on a wild throw. Dickinson got his base on balls and stole second. Corbett tied the score by a clean base hit to right field, which brought in Hovey and Dickinson. They made the winning run in the eighth with two men out again. Cook got a scratch hit and stole second - Mason got a single which brought in Cook, but was left on third. Dartmouth...
...crying need in our colleges today is the advice and instruction of experts. The whole subject has simply grown beyond the capacity of Faculty, students and graduates, and if athletics are to be pursued along the same line of other branches in education, that is with a view of obtaining the highest degree of excellence, institutions must employ special instructors trained for the purpose. This is a conclusion from which I should gladly escape, for it will greatly add to the difficulty and expense of keeping up an interest in athletics, but it is the natural results of a failure...