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...Harvards lost the toss, and at 4 o'clock Coolidge stepped to the bat. The first ball pitched was hit hard to third, who fumbled it and threw wild to first. Chase, to keep up the record, threw over Dilts' head to Doran, who fumbled it until Coolidge had reached the home plate, scoring the first run of the game. Olmsted and Baker then made hits, Nichols retired on a foul bound and Crocker struck to third, forcing Olmsted and retiring Baker by a fine double play. Brown retired in one, two, three order...
Professor W. T. Harris is mentioned as the possible future head of the Missouri State University...
...present recollection of him as I recall the scenes of those early days, his figure was slight and erect; his complexion light and delicate as a maiden's, with a slight bloom upon the cheek; his nose rather prominent; his eyes clear and blue, his well formed head covered with a profusion of light brown hair, waving loosely in the same manner as the gray locks of age. I have seen a portrait in his parlor in Cambridge that gives a good idea of him in his early life as I recollect...
...university men of fifty years ago, whom they constantly hear praised, had not the smallest tincture of science, The Oxford men - Newman, Manning and Arnold - knew nothing of it. The Cambridge man, Darwin, when at school, which was a principal feeder of Cambridge, heard his pursuits described by the head master as the cultivation of 'stinks' - which, indeed, became the popular university term for them." - [St. James' Gazette...
...Paine fell, and, before he could rise, was caught, it is claimed, in a shower of blows from Professor Moore's stick. He gained his feet, crying, "I can't stand this. Stop or I will shoot!" at the same time drawing a revolver and waving it over his head. Professor Pike came up with him, and, thinking his own life in danger, presented-his pistol and fired, the ball taking effect in the fleshy part of the left thigh. The wounded youth exclaimed, "I am shot," and the professor quickly assisted him and led him back to President Folwell...