Word: nine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...placed to accommodate the large crowd. It was a few minutes before eight that the dinning room was opened when the men entered and awaited the appearance of the eleven which Mr. C. M. Thayer, '89, ushered in amidst a tremendous greeting by series of cheers. About half-past nine Mr. Dexter, '90, who presided at the dinner arose and briefly introduced Mr. Rand '88, as toastmaster of the occasion. Mr. Rand made a few remarks on the work of the eleven, praising in high terms the pluck and skill of the team but especially of the untiring efforts...
...candidates for the Yale nine will commence work in the base-ball cage immediately after the Christmas recess...
...which, as far as advantages go, will put Williams on an equal footing with her rivals. The track is oblong in shape, fifteen feet wide and a sixth of a mile in circuit. It is very carefully underdrained and is composed of pin gravel covered to a depth of nine inches with cinders. The track is so arranged that the finish of the races will be opposite the grand stand which is also just back of the catcher's position in base ball. The upper end of the field has been cut down so that there is little grade...
...union in which trustworthy statistics were taken. Its death rate was only 17.5 in 1000 while the death rate in the whole state of Massachusetts was about 20 in 1000. The death rate in the state between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five is only eight or nine in one thousand. In the district of Cambridge in which the college buildings are situated, the death rate is only about nine in one thousand for all ages, no higher than the death rate for the most favored ages in the state at large. Thus it will be seen that Harvard...
...Williams college eleven has played twelve games this fall, nine exhibition and three championship. Of these Williams won one championship and tied one and won five exhibition games. She has made three hundred and four points to her opponents' two hundred and thirteen. A notice is posted in University stating that an examination will shortly be held by the civil service commission in Washington, or in any other large city where the board has an office, to select two clerks for the geological survey, at a salary of $900 each. Some knowledge of geology is required...