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...party of about 25 students went to College Hill yesterday to see the game against the Tufts College nine. The game opened with Harvard at the bat, and dragged along for nine full innings, its monotony only relieved by some error of unusual atrocity, or by a rare good play, such as the trick by which Allen caught Westcott napping at first in the seventh innings, and the double play by Tufts in the sixth. Litchfield and Tilden changed places in the third inning. The best batting was done by Wiestling, Crosby and Chapman...
...attracted by the announcement of an inter-collegiate game, yet that is the number that passed through the gates of the Yale Athletic Grounds last Saturday. The spacious new grandstand was densely packed with specta tors, Yale students for the most part, while crowds took up their position along the ropes stretching toward first and third bases: In the rear of the spectators some two score of drags, barouches, and dog-carts took their positions, laden with the lady supporters of the Blue and their escorts. Soon after three o'clock the cry of "Harvard this way !" lustily shouted...
...Exhibition of Paint tings," as the invitation read. Perhaps I had to fish for my invitation; but then fishing is not always an unpleasant sport. I caught a good sized fish; and with it came up such snags and grasses as a couple of sweet-scented cards, and trailing along after them a note. Of course I threw none of this booty back into the water...
...large number of carriages followed the crews along the river bank...
...were wild with excitement, sending up cheer after cheer for their winning crew. The dense crowds upon the roof of the Union Boat House, and along the sea wall also united in applauding the victors, while the classmates of the defeated oarsmen silently withdrew. In a few moments the gathering melted away, the crews were on their way back to Cambridge, and the class races of 1885 were over...