Word: seconding
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...base hit, got to third on Wright's failure to catch a ball thrown him by Ernst, and came home on Murnan's hit to short stop. Schafer closed the inning with a foul fly to catcher. On our side Holmes led off with a base hit, and stole second where he was left, the next three strikers retiring in order. The second inning resulted in a blank for the Bostons, Manning being left on second after making a clean...
...Harvard, Thayer made a base hit, but was forced out by Tyng's grounder to third. Latham went out on a fly to Leonard; Thatcher hit safe, bringing in Tyng; Sawyer was given his base on called balls, stole second, and scored on a base hit by Holmes. Wright struck to first base, and was put out. In the next two innings neither nine added anything to their score, but in the fifth Sawyer, after hitting safe, scored the only earned run of the game, coming in on a "two bases" of Holmes's. Score 3 to 1 in favor...
...eleventh Murnan secured second by an error of Holmes, Schafer struck to Sawyer and was put out at first, McGinley batted to Wright, who, by a bad overthrow, let in Murnan and sent McGinley to second, where he was left. Latham got his first on three strikes and stole his second, but was left there by the weak batting of the next three strikers...
...earned victory (N. Y. Times, July 16): 'He hurried down the lane to the string, which he reached, pale and exhausted, unable to stand still, and finally staggered into friendly arms outstretched to receive him.' Pitiful! very pitiful! Could any surer mode be invented of making a youth inevitably second-rate in mental, not to say moral, force, all the rest of his life? . . . . The new exercises for undergraduates serve to increase their natural centrifugal tendency to fly away from college authority, and also to barbarize their tastes and habits. College-rows, and hazing experiences, and ribald and even obscene...
...habits, honorable emulation, and pluck are inculcated should be gladly welcomed; and we should not condemn them on account of minor accompanying imperfections. We need strength of character, strength of body, strength of intellect; the first is favored by the very means which are now adopted for attaining the second...