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Allen's name has been put down on the score card for right field in to day's game. The chances for his catching are very slight indeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/19/1886 | See Source »

...runs, two muffed flies by Fitzgerald being responsible for four of these runs. The score stood at the beginning of the ninth inning, 7 to 5 in favor of Harvard. Yale went to bat amid terrific cheers from her supporters. Francke led off with a rattling base hit to right field, and got second on a passed ball. Osborn went out at first, and Watkinson made a base hit, bringing Francke in, and stole second. Davol was caught out on a foul. Smith made a terriffic drive to right field for three bases, bringing Watkinson in. Fitzgerald then struck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO MISTAKE THIS TIME! | 6/14/1886 | See Source »

...reduced to a sum that is within the means of the majority of the class, and under the circumstances it is simply disgraceful that no more than twenty names have been signed in the book at Leavitt & Peirce's. Let us hear no more of conduct such as every right-minded student should blush to call his own, but let every man who has not an examination on Saturday, or who is not in a condition of absolute poverty, buy a ticket, go to New Haven, and cheer on the nine to victory and honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/11/1886 | See Source »

...Boston University and the university of Michigan. Sufficient proof that women can compete successfully with men upon a collegiate basis is found in a comparison of the work done by men and by women at those universities. Few will to day dare deny to women an equal right with men to achieve a collegiate education. Those who oppose the plan of co-education and decry its efficacy as a plan of education, are forced to advance arguments drawn from the domestic relations of woman to the home and the fact that the creation of Adam was prior to that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/10/1886 | See Source »

...pressure of that description been brought to bear upon them. Although the meeting yesterday was an executive one, it was understood that none of the trustees opposed the resolutions by virtue of which the great institution was thrown open to women. Not only did the trustees freely accord this right to women, but they also conferred on one of that sex an honorary degree. The woman who received this mark of distinction is Miss Winifred Edgerton. She has for some time been studying in the Columbia Observatory. Her examinations showed that she had performed some really meritorious scientific work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 6/10/1886 | See Source »