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...runs in the seventh innings; Tower omitting to catch the ball before tumbling down. In the eighth, our Nine again failed to score, while the Bostons, by fine striking, especially a three-base hit by O'Rourke, scored 6 runs Hall quietly trotting home unnoticed amid the general demoralization. In the last innings, Kent scored an earned run; but Thatcher went out on a fly, and a double play vanquished Tower and Spinney. McVey then retired at first, Leonard reached it on an error of Hodges, and O'Rourke sent a high fly for which Tyler, Hodges, and Tower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 4/24/1874 | See Source »

...general delay among the Seniors in completing the list of answers to the Class Secretary's catechism must have become very exasperating. At least so it might be supposed from the bloodthirsty request in his late pronunciamento, " that those who have not written their lives will finish them immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 4/24/1874 | See Source »

...Saturday Review, of April 4, has an article on the Cambridge and Oxford race, which is very interesting, especially so on account of certain criticisms on boating in general and on the system of study in vogue at Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/24/1874 | See Source »

...many different kinds of dogs owned by H. U. students, the brown ones threaten to become the greatest nuisance, for, in general (observing Soph. loquitur), there is no end to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

After wreaking vengeance on the helpless railroad, the detachment rejoined the main body, which had now reached Cambridge, and a general work of devastation was inaugurated; telegraph-poles were torn down and eaten by the more voracious of the monsters; paving-stones were torn up and thrown into Charles River until the Back Bay Problem was completely solved, no water being now visible for miles around; lamp-posts were thrust into the chimneys of dwelling-houses, and a pyramid of horse-cars five hundred feet in height was constructed, which, with all such drivers, conductors, and passengers as were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REIGN OF TERROR IN BOSTON. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »