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...rowed an excellent race and it is not to be wondered that their classmates were happy last night. The race was not very satisfactory however, to any of the other classes. The complications into which the other crews got were very unfortunate. It would be difficult to fix the fault, and perhaps it is better not to try as it will not help matters. To the whole University the most gratifying feature of the race was the excellent work of the freshman crew. Notwithstanding a discouraging start the crew kept to their work pluckily, and at the finish made...
...will be seen that this plan does not agree with either plan mentioned yesterday in the CRIMSON. Morning prayers will not be interfered with, but the noon hour will be shortened to an half hour. On the score of athletics little fault will be found with...
...Though he struck out only four men he succeeded in preventing the Harvard team from hitting safely more than twice. Sullivan pitched the first inning, and one hit was made off his delivery. These three hits were all our nine could make, try how they would. But the chief fault in their play, or at any rate, one more easily corrected, was the wretched base running. Our men know how to steal bases better than most college nines, but this knowledge should not make them foolhardy, as it certainly seems to do. In the first inning Trafford...
Yesterday's defeat was then largely the fault of the nine; perhaps it was even more the fault of the umpire. At a critical moment he called a pretty, perfectly fair hit of Howe's a foul. He allowed Murphy to score when it was perfectly evident to almost every one else on the grounds that he was out at the plate. His judgment of balls and strikes was also bad. The field, moreover, was as bad as the umpire. The attendance was small...
...himself by getting honorable mention in Mathematics. But few people realized how hard he struggled to support himself. By great exertions he managed to lay by enough to enable him to graduate. He never, however, received his diploma. The little sum so dearly earned was lost, but through no fault of his. Too pround to accept a loan offered by a classmate, he left college and took a position as assistant engineer on the C. B. and Q. R. R. Here he had many intricate problems to solve, and his success won for him the highest praise. When the engineer...