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HARVARD VS. AMHERST-Jarvis Field...
...Cricket Club will not do any practicing this year on account of the impossibility of getting its grounds on Jarvis field sodded and in proper working order...
...accepted, as it seems probable under Dr. Sargent's teaching that it will, then this objection to specialties may be thrown aside. As to competition, it may be an evil, but it is a necessary evil. We must accept our athletes with this evil or not at all. [Turf, Field and Farm...
...June, 1880, he was admitted to Harvard with honors; and when, a few months later, he appeared on Jarvis Field as a candidate for the freshman nine, few men imagined that the small, unassuming young man they saw there was destined to excel in every department of the university he entered. But such indeed was true. As a scholar, he was among the first in his class; and, although he apparently devoted but little time to study, yet he had that faculty of application and versatility of intellect which enabled him to grasp any subject, whether history, philosophy, mathematics...
...favor. In the eighth and ninth innings, however, Yale got in some hard hitting, and aided by Gunderson's very wild pitching made four runs, while Brown failed to score. Brown was weak at the bat, and with the exception of Basset and Rhett, played poorly in the field. Yale batted quite heavily, but in the field they failed to show the sharpness and accuracy of last year's nine. On the whoie, it looks as if Harvard could look forward to a very close contest on Saturday next...