Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...University Nine played the first game of the series for the College championship with Brown last Saturday. Owing to the absence of the first baseman of the Brown Nine, play was not called until half an hour after the appointed time. The first two innings were played in a heavy shower, so that the errors made then, on account of the soaked condition of the ball, were excusable...
...Time of game, 2 hours 10 minutes...
...University needs a good many things. I used to think it needed praying for, but the disappearance of the ulsters has reassured me on that score. The pressing need at this time is a course in the philosophy of Herbert Spencer. For this there arises periodically, at about this time, a dolorous wail, as of a child for the bottle, in the College papers, which I propose to forestall this time with some considerations of a lighter sort...
...Weld six will probably be composed of J. W. Wells, '79, stroke, F. A. Bates, '77, H. H. Brown, '76, W. A. Brownlow, '76, P. W. Page, '77, G. S. Raymer, '78, bow. They pull a slow stroke, but find some difficulty in keeping time with their bodies...
...Augustus, then, be polite to old Smudge out of policy, if for no better reason, for I imagine he has a rather hard time, and will appreciate a pleasant smile and a kind nod; and who knows but what his aid may avert a dreaded "flunk" on some impossible question? (Smudge has a genius for knowing things that most people put down as "things no fellow can be expected to know,") But, at any rate, however this may be, Augustus will have the satisfaction of having acted like a gentleman...