Word: nine
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...balls won by the Nine last year have just been placed in the Gymnasium...
...University against this insidious foe, which this year is on a greater increase than ever before. The Yale News states that Harvard is straining every nerve for victory in the spring. This is true so far as it concerns the men who are now training for the "'Varsity" and Nine, but it is not true of those outside of them. When our men are working hard to retrieve Harvard's defeats of last season, their training is certainly made less monotonous and more earnest and attractive if they feel that the eyes of all the University are upon them...
...famous in almost every walk of life. Harvard, in this respect, is sadly lacking, one reason being that our athletic prominence extends no farther back than half a generation; but it is necessary to make a beginning in this respect. This was done in the case of the ball nine in 1878, and of the races last year. Tablets recording the first three class races were placed in the Gymnasium, and it was hoped that the custom, once started, would not be allowed to fall into disuse. But, either owing to oversight or negligence, no record of the last October...
First, I can tell you the names of all the men who have been on the Team, Nine, or Crew, for the last three years, with a running commentary on each one; very valuable information, I assure you, sir, as you would find, if you took a girl out to see a base ball or football match...
...election been open; but we cannot help thinking that these same men would be better satisfied if they felt that they were appointed by the meeting at large, rather than by a committee which was previously instructed to nominate them. If it be necessary for the Captain of the Nine and Crew to have an Executive Committee subservient to them, then it will be better to give up holding meetings of the University, in which there is no chance for open nomination, and where an unprejudiced student feels himself out of place, or, at best, merely the echo of those...