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...athletes by the erection of a fence, is answered by mentioning the fact that the purpose of the fence is not to make money - although it might incidentally increase the amount of gate receipts - but rather to keep out the hordes of "muckers" who infest the outskirts of the field and make themselves disagreeable by the hoots and cries, and who at the end of every game rush on to the field in a body, cutting it up seriously and doing more damage in one day than would otherwise be done in weeks...
...nine yesterday gave an excellent exhibition of fielding and a poor exhibition at the bat. In the field, not an error was made, and many of their plays were notable for their brilliancy. Lovering's play at second was especially noticeable. Baker at short did good work. His stops were clean and his throws accurate. The best batting by Harvard was done by Nichols and Smith. Special features of the game were the foul bound catch by Smith in the eleventh inning and the double play of Baker, Lovering and Smith in the fourth. For Bowdoin, the pitching by Wright...
...treatment of the students were wrong. The committee pays a tribute to the genius and ability of President White, yet expresses disapproval of his absence from the university, his giving so much time to political reforms and distributing his energies and those of the university over too large a field. All this experience of Cornell and her present troubles are of value in showing the worth of the possession of a certain conservative tradition of scholarship for any college, and also in giving warning how easily it may befall that the richest endowment may come to naught if a false...
...keep him from starving. However, his 150 to 300 rubles do not permit him to go into good society, nor is his company desired at the professor's house. But if he fails to get the scholarship, than the alternative is either to go back to the village as field-hand, or - the world must be changed, as Ossip Parfenitch and all the rest of them say. And so he tries to change the world. He was so confident of getting the scholarship - 250 of them are awarded at the university - and now all his hopes are blasted...
...Princeton team which defeated the New York lacrosse team by a score of 2 to 1, is as follows: Egbert, '84, as goal-keeper; Hodge, '83, point; Hewitt, '83, cover point; Gilmore, '83, Hall, '83, Ranney, '86, defence field; Blackmore, '86, centre; Traverse, '84, Rudd, '83, R. Hodge, '86, attack field; Poe, '84, first home; Riggs, '83, second home...