Word: seconding
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...three order. George Wright and O'Rourke led off for the other side with base hits, but the Bostons failed to score, George Wright being caught napping at third, and prettily thrown out by Thatcher, who purposely muffed the ball at the third strike. In the second inning, Harvard again failed to score, but had two men left on bases. Schafer scored for the Bostons, the next three men retiring at first. Score, 1 to 0 in favor of the Bostons. Neither Nine scored in the third inning. In the next two innings Harvard made four runs by good batting...
...course a Yale man wrote it. And yet the sentences are all grammatical; the second verse, too, has a classical touch, - a reference to one of Horace's odes...
...Tuesday last the Amherst Nine came to Cambridge to play the second game of the series with our Nine. As the Amherst men had defeated Brown in an up-hill game, making no less than five runs in the last innings, a close and exciting game was hoped for, if not expected...
...first three innings no runs were made, Harvard showing her usual inability to get on to the pitcher until the men came to their second turn at the bat. In the fourth innings, however, after two men were out and a chance was given for the third, Harvard piled up four runs on three base hits by Ernst, Wright, and Latham. From this point on the only interest in the game was to see if Amherst would be whitewashed every inning; and this, from the weak way in which she was batting, seemed not at all improbable. The nearest approach...
...released from the control which their position in the Yard has given the authorities over them, will degenerate into noisy, less respectable, and more attractive institutions, or the interest in them, which cannot now be called intense, will die out altogether. The first result would unquestionably be bad; the second might be either bad or good. If the little remaining interest dies out of the societies, it will be transferred to something else, and according as this something else is better or worse than the society, the influence of the change will be bad or good. Whatever may be thought...