Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prospects for a successful Freshman track team this spring, although not as bright as last year, are nevertheless cheerful. In the pole-vault, high-jump, and mile run the 1918 team looks very promising. M. L. Chase '18, in the high-jump, C. F. Babbitt '18, in the pole-vault, and L. K. Moorehead '18, C. P. Heffenger '18, and J. Coggeshall '18 in the long distances have already proved themselves able. Of the relay team R. U. Whitney '18, V. F. Likens '18, and D. M. Little '18 are the most likely to excel...
...University swimming team will meet Brown at Providence tomorrow evening. Since the University defeated Cornell so decisively after that team had won from Brown the University's chances for victory are unusually bright. The team will line up as follows...
...defence there are S. P. Beal '16, P. Catton '15, E. E. O'Neil '16, F. J. Little '15, M. L. Cochran '15, and R. W. Story '15. With these experienced men back and with some very good material to pick from the possibility of a championship is bright...
There is less use than formerly of such terms. as the "Big Three" or the "Big Four" in college phraseology. No college can afford to talk of participation in such a title when any bright autumn, after the various registrations are computed, it is liable to find itself a dozen numbers, more or less, further down the list than it supposed it was. It seems but half a dozen years ago, though it is really more, since one thought of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, possibly including Columbia, Cornell, or Pennsylvania, as the "big" universities of the country, meaning in numbers...
...Written toward the close of the year 1706, it is a very sprightly reflection of the manners of the time. The plot which deals with the adventures of two embarrassed gentlemen who go down into the country disguised as master and servant is most humorously worked out in a bright and genial...