Word: backed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...making the catch is allowed two steps. This is one of the points left to be corrected by the sub-committee on editing the rules. The committee provided that if a player is out of bounds when the ball is put in play, it shall be brought back and played over again without penalty. When the ball goes out of bounds the player may bring it in any distance from five to fifteen yards, but must put it down under the direction of the referee...
...both his songs and lines, although his voice failed at times to carry. S. D. Preston '06, is "Hustler, the Wanderer", sang "New York's the Place" and "When I Started Out" with engaging ease and jauntiness of manner, and showed considerable range in "Let's Sew" and "Back, get Back", in Act II. On several occasions the orchestra was a little too loud for the voices of the principals and the effectiveness of the lyrics marred by hurrying. The "Prophet" was well acted by J. J. Rowe '07, and his songs "Morocco" and "To Kill is Our Fate", were...
...city, he could accomplish almost nothing. All attempts at regulation have failed. The reason is manifest. Most of the franchises, owned by the street railway companies, are almost unconditional and practically perpetual. The only legal means by which the city can secure adequate control is to buy back the franchises. This means municipal ownership...
...University crew had its second hard row yesterday, when it rowed down-stream to the Longwood bridge in short stretches, then into the basin beyond the Harvard bridge and back to the Longwood in two long stretches, and on the return had a close brush with the second. Blagden coxswained again...
...first Freshman crew Williams was tried at stroke and Faulkner went back to his place at 7. Several changes were made in the second boat. The third and fourth crews are in a very unsettled condition owing to the frequent changes, but a cut will probably be made early next week...