Word: greatness
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...base-ball grounds were changed from the Delta to Jarvis Field. J. B. Ames, '68, was captain, and three great games were played with the Lowells, to decide the disputed question of championship. The scores are as follows...
...great years in Harvard's base-ball history. The Dartmouths were beaten 38 to 0, and the Lowells were frequently worsted. A good game was played with the famous Red Stockings, then champions of the country. A trip was taken during the summer, and a number of professional nines were encountered. This year Perrin, still remembered for his brilliant play at first base, joined the Nine. Fourteen out of twenty games were...
...Boylston, the Fine Arts Collections, and the Agassiz Museum (if the Trustees will permit), for inspection on Sunday afternoons from May 1 to November 1, provided that the city of Cambridge will supply police for the buildings. The authorities hesitate about accepting the offer, it appears. After the great success that has attended the opening of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on Sunday afternoons, it seems strange that any serious objection should be made here to an attempt to provide innocent amusement and instruction on Sundays, for those who are busy during the rest of the week. The Corporation...
...efforts of the Committee to make Class Day enjoyable to those for whom it is intended are commendable. Instead of being roped off as usual, the Yard will be paled in. This will be a great improvement over the old plan. It seems impossible with the rope to keep out the rabble; and before the evening is over the crowd is so large that one cannot move about the Yard with any comfort. The aim of the Committee is to distribute the Yard-tickets among the class, and if all are careful as to whom they give them, next Class...
...have very good grounds for their action. The electing of some eighteen or twenty hours a week up to the time of the semi-annuals, or later, and the constant changing from one course to another, are certainly injurious to the student himself, and are also a source of great annoyance at the office. As to the fact that it is impossible to obtain good marks under certain instructors, it would seem as if the proper way to avoid this difficulty would be by specifying the courses of these instructors as extras at the outset, since there need...