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Yale played a sharp game in the field. Goodwin played finely, his throwing being especially good. Ayer and Tuttle played well, and Hickox, though rather wild, was very effective. They were with the exception of Ayer and Sheppard, entirely unable to hit Baker. Harvard, with the exception of the slight flurry in the fifth inning, played a steady and brilliant fielding game. Baker pitched splendidly, keeping his opponents down to three hits, and striking out ten men. Tilden caught extremely well. Potter did what little he had to do capitally ; he is a promising player. The nine as a whole...
...will choose. It has been urged more than once both by authorities and outside observers that the large classes now entering college injure it both intellectually and socially more than they benefit it pecuniary, and that the now almost total loss of class fellowship is working a bad effect upon the majority of men who graduate. Unfortunately this is too true. In the smaller establishments of learning where the classes are limited to one hundred or less, the men amalgamate, so to speak, together, and the metal of their mind is in consequence such that when any important question comes...
...remarks on the resemblances between corporations and certain other legal institutions. There follows, in the fifth and six chapters, a discussion of the rights and liabilities arising through the promotion and formation of a corporation. These chapters are succeeded by a detailed discussion of corporate powers, and the legal effect of acts done by or on behalf of a corporation in occasioning legal relations between it and outsiders. The subsequent portion of the work treats of the rights and liabilities of the persons having interests in the corporate enterprise; treats, that is to say, of the legal relations subsisting with...
...dependence upon the single bullet and the skill which putting it in the right place necessitates, has a tendency to give the rifleman a like precision of ideas. In order to attain any considerable degree of skill it is essential that he should be a good reasoned. Distances, effect of the atmosphere and wind, are among the points to be considered. If the shot is to be made at any kind of game, the speed at which it is moving must, of course, be noted. Unfortunately in the Northern States there is comparatively little game worthy the attention...
...faculty of Trinity College have published schemes of study modifying and enlarging the present curriculum, which have been approved by a committee of the corporation and are intended to take effect in the fall. One fourth of the work in the last two years of the bachelor of arts course is made elective, and the elections are given a wide range. Two courses of study, one of three and one of four years, are provided for the degree of bachelor of science including advanced mathematics, science, laboratory work, etc. A fourth course, in letters, is meant for non-technical students...