Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Since the cut made in the squad subsequent to the race between the three trial eights on April 1, the work has shown fairly consistent improvement. The catch and beginning of the stroke are distinctly better, though there is generally a lack of drive, and the men are showing a persistent tendency to rush. On Tuesday the two trial eights had several short brushes with each other and with the Senior class crew. In a three minute brush upstream Farley's eight defeated the Senior crew; Filley's boat came in third. Some time before the end of the week...
...University lacrosse team will play a practice game with a team of graduates on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock this afternoon. In outdoor practice during the past two weeks the University team has developed considerable team play, and is in better condition than at this time last year. The graduate team includes some of the best players of former years. After the game the members of the University team will give the graduates a dinner in the Union. The line-up will be: UNIVERSITY TEAM. GRADUATES. Hays, g. g., McConaghy Ackerman, l.h. p., Wynne M. '02 Smith...
...play its first game of the season with the University of Vermont this afternoon on the Freshman diamond, Soldiers Field, at 3.30 o'clock. As neither team has yet played a game this season it is impossible to from an accurate comparison of the nines. Vermont, however has a better team than in several years...
...they must say it so that it can be heard. Sound arguments and plain facts carry more votes than party abuse or flights of rhetoric. Honest purpose, backed by character, does not always succeed, yet never more than today has the sincere advocacy of a cause a better chance of hearing...
...production showed a marked improvement over its first performance on graduates' night, both in a better knowledge of the parts and in promptness of delivery and action, and was enthusiastically received. C. Kempner '06, as Truewit, the gay and debonair young knight, who was ever ready to scheme for the welfare of his friends and who dearly loved a joke, carried off his part with remarkable grace and vivacity. The part of Sir Amorous La-Foole, an affected and obsequious today, who had a great opinion of the La-Foole family and of everything which belonged to them, was admirably...