Word: three
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...After patient consideration we have surmised that part of the books were marked fairly. We also have ground for supposing that when the instructor was fatigued he counted the number of books, put an equal amount of numbers in a hat, and then drew them. Somehow or other only three denominations were used, consequently a large proportion of the books had either 73, 64 or 46 per cent. That from six to twelve students whose ranks varied largely last year, should all get 64 per cent, at once seemed strange to us, but our theory answers all objections, and must...
...captain, played first base; F. W. Thayer, '78, second; Leeds, short stop; Tyng, third; with Tower, Ernst, and Latham in the field. Sixteen games were played, of which only seven were won. Yale won the series in two consecutive games of 9 to 4, and 11 to 4, respectively. Three games with the Bostons proved more disastrous than usual. The Princeton was the only college club over which our Nine was victorious, and the championship went to Yale. Our prestige in base ball had fallen, and after the victories up to '73, a period of defeat...
Thus Harvard took six first prizes, five second, and three third, getting nearly as many as all the rest of the colleges put together...
Next came the mile-walk. Three out of six men entered, appearing at the scratch. The walking was not very good, and R. H. Sayre, '81 (Columbia), beat Herrick, '82 (Harvard...
...Three contestants in the running broad jump made the following records: Thayer, '81 (U. of Penn.), 20 ft. 2 in.; Thompson, '82 (Harvard), 19 ft. 11 1/2 in.; and Irons, '81 (Brown...