Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...tall, heavily-built man with a style much resembling that of Willis of the Boston team. He has fair speed, but is not steady. MacDonald has steadiness, good control, and a quick curve, but is handicapped by a very short waist which renders it difficult for him to attain high speed. Dudley is one of the hardest workers on the squad and has improved steadily. He has fair speed and good control, but has difficulty with his curved balls. Winsor has fair control and shows good promise. Of the eligible Freshmen, Stillman and Kernan have been doing the best work...
...first scholarship ever bequested to Harvard was founded in 1643, by Lady Ann Mowlson, of London, by gift of a hundred pounds, "to be and to remain a perpetual stipend for the maintenance of some poor scholar until such time as such scholar doth attain the degree of a Master of Arts." This is unquestionably the oldest foundation of the kind in this country...