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...said that the home run made by Hunt of the Yale nine was the longest hit ever made on the Washington grounds...
After Prof. Shaler's article, readers will probably linger the longest over Mr. Carpenter's clever dialogue on dilettanteism, which is really worthy of close reading. I quote the delightful little summing up of the argument: "The true dilettante is like Antaeus; the oftener you wrestle him out of his prepossessions, the more confirmed does he become in his dilettanteism. The only remedy for eclecticism is more eclecticism...
Lyons, '85, of Yale has made the longest throw and also the longest hit in the Inter-collegiate record. The distance of the throw was 385 feet 2 inches that of the hit was 450 feet from the home plate to the spot at which the ball fell...
...Piper downs Ireland. Back ten yards. Higginson throws Hanson. Morrison kicks to Sears, who runs. Slocum runs back but passes to Sears, who makes up the lost ground. Hunnewell runs and passes to Piper. Ten yards gain. Runs by Higginson, Perry and Hunnewell gain fifty yards, Perry making the longest run. A couple of short runs and the ball is on Yale's five-yard line. Crane loses ground but Perry is pushed through at the centre. Touchdown for Harvard. No goal. Higginson stops Wurtemberg, Piper, Morrison, and Slocum Ireland. Back ten yards. Crehore and Harding throw Morrison, and Dexter...
...over the field during the game. In the seventh, Harvard led off with five successive hits. With two men on bases Willard made a splendid hit to right field for four bags. The ball struck on the hill and rolled way up to a building. It was the longest drive ever seen on the grounds. When the fielder reached the ball, Willard was within 40 feet of the home plate...