Word: mis
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard nine's ability to play good baseball. Not an error was made in the first game with Princeton, and although the batting was light, hits were made at the most timely moments. It has been said of that game that Harvard won only because Princeton made mis-plays; but as Coach Pieper said at the recent mass meeting, it speaks well for a team if it is able to make the most of its opponents' errors...
...first of the Godkin lectures for this year was delivered last night in the Fogg Lecture Room by President Eliot on "Municipal Mis-Government." After a short tribute to Edwin L. Godkin as one who for a generation advocated reform and fought corruption, the lecturer began his outline of the facts of municipal Mis-government, their causes, and results. The succeeding four lectures will relate experiments in reform...
...GODKIN LECTURES. I. "Municipal Mis-Government; the Evils and their Causes." President Eliot. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
President Eliot will deliver the first of the Godkin Lectures for 1907-08 on "Municipal Government" in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at 8 o'clock, taking as his subject "Municipal Mis-Government; the Evils and their Causes." The lecture will be open to the public...
...tank to practise in, and no material but those men who will sacrifice a whole season of football or baseball for 2 or 3 swimming events, where time by the most approved stop-watches never exceeds four minutes, yet is by common consent of the legislators pronounced an extravagant mis-appropriation of time, energy, and gray matter. Lest such wholesale absorption of athletics be increased they have made the two-season rule...