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...others met a Nine from Brown; these latter being favored - for that occasion only, we trust - with the kind services of Messrs. Tyng and Thatcher. The odds against the Harvard men were, naturally, enormous; and the game terminated in our defeat by a score of eight to seven. The second innings was marked by a fine double play by Ernst, and in the following innings a splendid hit by Thayer gave three runs. In the fifth, a double out was made by Ernst, who obstinately insisted on catching a fly regardless of the earnest advice of his friends to drop...
...UNIVERSITY NINE play the Rollstones, of Fitchburg, this afternoon on the Boston grounds. The second game in the series with Brown will be played in Providence to-morrow afternoon...
...Second Ten of the Athenaeum are as follows: W. K. Blodgett, G. H. Brown, E. T. Chamberlain, L. B. Dean, I. Elting, J. R. Holmes, E. W. Morse, G. M. Pinney, G. S. Raymer, H. A. Wood...
...have, in a given year, the office of Poet to be filled by the Pudding, and that of Orator to be filled by the Pi Eta. In each society there is an insignificant minority advancing a second candidate, but these minorities work for their candidates, and in the general election both minority nominees are elected by the votes of the rival society and non-society men. Such a case is not only possible but probable; mutual disappointment to the societies must result often from its use, and the election of men whom their own fellow-members in society consider inferior...
...This interruption arises neither from lack of enthusiasm in the pupils of Penikese, nor from any want of generous interest in the naturalists who have thus far given their services to aid the enterprise. On the contrary, the second summer at Penikese was, to the surprise of its friends, as striking a success as the first had been, and the lists for the coming year were as crowded as ever. But the pupils at Penikese come from a poorly paid class. However grateful for the privilege of studying at a seaside school of natural history, very few among them...