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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...made a good stand for 130, thus winning by an inning and 48 runs. Burns played brilliantly, for 59 runs, though he gave several chances for catches. Meiklejohn made 15, but should have been caught on the first ball. The spectators crowded in on the grounds and made fielding difficult. The umpire's decisions were unfavorable to Harvard. The score...
...bather ninth inning. The freshmen carried their team off the field and marched to the gymnasium behind a brass band. The features of the game were Manley's playing at short-stop and the doubleplay by McCoy, Piper and Aiken in the fourth inning. Dolan also accepted some difficult chances at third. The score...
...rules adopted by the Faculty last spring, in accordance with the famous vote of the overseers of January 30, 1889, have now had almost a year's trial. It is difficult to trace their effect except in a general way, and part of the changes they have produced may be only temporary; but it is interesting to notice some of the results. It will be remembered that the overseers first voted that in their opinion it was "expedient that every undergraduate be required to report in person early every morning;" that the Faculty, unwilling to establish a roll-call, adopted...
...going home when Bates tried to catch him off the base; and scoring by McCoy's error, a steal and Frothingham's hit. Johnson's hit and steal, a passed ball and Merriam's sacrifice brought in another in the third. three hits and Wahburn's miss of a difficult grounder brought in three more in the next. Ninety's runs in the fourth and fifth were all unearned. In the sixth ninety came near tying the score; Faulkner took first on Roob's muff of a grounder, stole to third and scored on a wild pitch, Akin was given...
...Passing Regiment.The Passing Regiment" was very well given by the Museum Company last evening. Miss Sheridan was exceedingly good in her rather difficult part of the Russian heiress. Mr. Wilson was very good and Mr. Pitt made an excellent idiot. The cast on the whole is excellent and the play deserves large audiences...