Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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From now on practice will be held every day in the handball courts behind the Gymnasium and occasionally on Divinity Field until Soldiers Field is in better condition. No games will be played until after the southern trip, which begins on April 13. This year a second team will be formed in order to help the development of the University team...
...forwards, Allen and Currie are accurate in throwing baskets and play together well. Allen is better on long shots, while Currie is steady and sure on short shots. Dial usually secures the ball on the toss-up and is a very accurate shot from close range, but is slightly inaccurate in passing. Deane and White are steady but rather slow, though Deane has been developing rapidly...
...attempt to improve the basin, the Longwood bridge and the low railroad bridge beside it has been raised under authority of an act passed by the legislature of 1904. A new and wider bridge will also be built connecting Boylston street, Cambridge, with Harvard street, Allston, thus affording a better approach to Soldiers Field. The act authorizing this bridge was also passed by the legislature...
During the past week about twenty men have reported daily for elementary lacrosse practice. Next Tuesday candidates for the University, Freshman, and other class teams will be called out, and practice will be held daily in the handball courts until the ground on Soldiers Field is in better condition. When the men have been given a fair trial they will be graded into squads from which the University and class teams will be selected...
...Gymnasium last night by the score of 27 to 20. Though exciting on account of the close score, the game was one of the poorest played by the University team this year. In both team work and shooting the men made a poor showing. Andover's team work was better, but they were beaten by the superior individual playing of the University team. The game was unusually clean throughout, the few fouls called being for minor offences against the rules. Andover started the game strongly, Fells making a basket in the first minute of play. Amberg tied the score...