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Harvard defeated Yale Saturday, and by so doing got a long lead in the struggle for the championship. Harvard has, thus far, won five games to Yale's three, and has lost one to her opponent...
This game gives Ninety-one the lead in number of games won. All the teams have lost one game. The teams were made up as follows: Ninety-one-Morton, Amory, Walcott, Stead, Jones, Everett, King, Bigelow, Davis; Ninety Morton, Pulsifer, Kuhn, Hecht, Wells, Blaney, Henshaw, Spencer, Slade...
Harvard was blanked in the first inning. In the second, she made two runs from hits by Knowlton and Campbell and a base on balls. In the next inning she made one more run from a hit by Boyden and a sacrifice. In the fifth and sixth innings the lead was increased four runs by hits of Campbell, Boyden and Howland and a base on balls. In the eighth, two more runs were made from hits by Gallivan and Boyden, and in the ninth inning a three-base hit by Knowlton, four bases on balls and an error by right...
...Henry James is such a powerful writer that I take great delight in reading his works. He has given up his pottering of years past and has become more finished, light, but yet powerful. Time was when I thought Howells was in the lead, but I think James has beaten him altogether. Howells has made a formula and swallowed it, and it has stuck to him. James looks at the world instead of a swinging black ball of geometrical proportions. Still, I think Howells will change his ideas. He seems too clever a man to stick to them. The recent...
...Field yesterday afternoon in the expectation of seeing a class base-ball game, were disgusted at the action of the captain of one of the class nines. The captain insisted that some law-school man should be chosen as umpire, fearing that the partiality of any under graduate would lead him to side with the opposing team. When objection was made to his proposal, he immediately called his men off the field and refused to play. It would seem as though a man who has passed four years at college would be sensible enough to control his temper...