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...mile walk was Harvard's, first, last and all the time, - although for an instant an ephemeral hope was born in Yale men's breasts by a sudden spurt of Wright's in the fourth lap. He had hardly gotten the lead when he fell from exhaustion and Endicott, Bardeen and Norton of Harvard finished in the order named - the tie which the judges declared to have been between Endicott and Bardeen being given to the former by the latter. Pierson of Yale was a hopeless and indisputable last
...balls, stole second and took third on an error by short stop, while Cassatt came home. This same error gave Dreyfus a chance to reach first. Then with Rogers and Dreyfus on bases, McAdams made his home run, adding three more to the score. The fifth run was gotten by a single, a steal, and two errors, while in the next inning McAdams knocked his second home...
...braced up and played the rest of the game in better shape. Harvard scored no runs in the first two innings. In the third Highlands struck out. Hovey got his base on balls, and Hallowell knocked a beauty base hit over in right field and would have gotten second but for a fine stop and throw by Cook. Frothingham got a good base hit, bringing in two men, but was left at second. In the fourth Cook got his base on balls, and Upton sent him to second by a terrible fumble of his hit, by Steere. With...
...advocated by the leading educationalist of the day. Comenius was essentially a man far ahead of his times. He recognized, and this is what Harvard is trying to improve upon the public today, that a system of teaching must be a natural one; that the greatest good cannot be gotten out of a man's mind by forcing him to study what is naturally distasteful to him: and that this highest intellectual power of man is demanded, as the real purpose of education is the advancement of humanity and not personal aggrandizement...
Very little idea can be gotten, of the candidates as yet, very few of the old men being out. In the course of two or three weeks the work will be harder and about all of the old men will be at work...