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...professional coached the Nine during their winter training in the Gymnasium? If any, were his services paid? Did or did not professionals play on the Harvard Nine in the game with the Worcesters, Fast Day, and against the Bostons, April 10? If they did, were they paid? Out of a University of thirteen hundred students, could no players be found to take the places made vacant by the illness of two of the regular Nine? Are there to be any regular substitutes from the men in College, or is the Nine dependent upon outsiders...
...been aided by the advice of Mr. Ernst, '76, who has come up from Providence once a week during the winter, to watch our progress, and to give our pitchers the benefit of his experience. It is true that in two instances professionals have played on the Nine. The day before the Worcester game, four men sent word that sickness or family affairs would prevent their playing next day. All that could be done was to get together all the ball-players then in Cambridge, - it was vacation, - and to start with this scrub nine. To strengthen our side...
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...that's jest lovely." "Let me see it," said I, hopefully. It was the "Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau"! I had had enough; I said I had an engagement to dinner, and left, while she called after me, "Come round again some afternoon, - I'm' most always here fine days, - and we might have a row on the lake." I accepted the invitation" with pleasure," and departed from Wellesley next day in a hurry...