Word: error
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...early in the year to tell whether the employing of janitors and their corps of assistants, vice goodies, is a success, and we do not intend to fall into the error of making any bold assertions about the matter just yet; merely a suggestion or so will be enough. Some have complained that the rooms are not well taken care of by the new goodies, and there is ground for the complaint. True, there has been a slight improvement shown since the beginning of the term, but still we would urge upon the janitors the necessity of paying strict attention...
ATHLETICS.Manhattan Athletic Club. - A curious series of errors occurred at the sports of this club, on September 21. For a one-mile handicap walk, over a one-fifth-mile track, thirty-nine men started, and when the race was over, W. Purdy, 35 sec., was placed first, and his time was found to be 6 min. 15 sec. It was also found, on reckoning up, that the three first men had all beaten 6 min. 30 sec. An error somewhere was evident, and it finally turned out that the lap-taker was from one to three laps short on every...
...base-hit, Thayer scoring; Holden hit hard to centre, caught by Brown, and Tyng was put out napping between bases, when he should have scored on the fly. Base-hits by Hutchison and Parker, and a sacrifice by Smith, earned Yale a run; an unfortunate slip gave Winsor an error, by allowing Parker to reach second on a single...
Ninth Inning. - Base-hits by Wright and Winsor, a bad error by Smith, and sacrifice hits by Howe and Tyng, gave Harvard three runs. A two-base hit by Hutchison, and a fumble by Latham, gave Yale her last...
...miss of Downer's third strike, and scored on a wild pitch. Downer was hit by a ball from Walden while running to second, and declared out; Walden was caught by Latham to Thayer; Brown hit hard to Holden, who jumped for the ball, but made an excusable error; stole second, and scored on a wild throw by Tyng. Harvard scored four runs on base-hits by Howe and Nunn, a sacrifice by Tyng, and errors by Brown, Walden, and Hutchison...