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...their respective adherents. From lach of space, the full score is crowded out of this issue, but for the CRIMSON nine, Bemis, Parker, Austin, Williams, Pierson, Bacon, Butler, Morrison and Frye did the best playing, while for the Argonauts, Clark, DeVeau, Preston, Faulkner, Allen, Foster, Fletcher, Austin and Adams bore off the honors. The CRIMSON, base hits 3, errors 96; the Argonauts, base hits, 4, errors 94. On the whole, the game was unsatisfactory, and we hope that another match may be arranged before long...
...There it remained till four and a half minutes had sped away, amidst the most intense excitement. Then '85, by straightening out and laying on the rope, held a slight advantage when the time was up. The juniors at once rushed into the open space, and amid repeated cheers bore their team out of the hall. This closed a most successful meeting. The doors were quickly opened and the large crowd quickly dispersed...
...minutes to twelve it was officially announced that Captain Flanders had won the shell by over 1300 majority. After several three times three's had been given, the crew lowered the shell from its position above the stage, and carried it triumphantly out of the hall. The crowd then bore it up Chapel street on their shoulders, and once around the campus, singing and cheering. The boat was then placed in the gymnasium and the crowd dispersed. [Yale News...
...advocating this addition to the club's functions I do not wish to detract in the slightest degree from the interests of the rifle shooters, for I am myself an enthusiastic friend if the grooved barrel, as well as of the smooth bore, team may be got into training by the first of next term which shall shoot against some of the rifle clubs in the neighborhood during the springmonths, All that the shot-gun men ask is that some provison many be made for them by which they can obtain practice at least as early as March or April...
...political influence of the New England clergy in the agitations of those times" are Jonathan Mayhew and Charles Chauncey. Jonathan Mayhew was "in the pulpit, a sort of tribune of the people." Charles Chauncey was "a man of leonine heart, of strong, cool brain, of uncommon moral strength. He bore a great part in the intellectual strife of the revolution; but before that strife opened, he bad moulded deeply the thought of his time, both by his living speech and by his publications." Coming now nearer to '76 we meet the brothers, Samuel and John Adams; of the classes...