Word: captain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Keator, captain of the Yale baseball nine of last year, is coaching the Yale baseball candidates...
This book consists of a series of interrupted memoirs written partly by the Captain Basil Jennico, the hero of the story, and partly by the authors in person. Captain Jennico, an English gentlemen, falls heir to the great estate of Tollendhal, situated in northern Austria, and here a marvellous series of adventures befalls him and a certain Princess Ottilie of Lausitz-Rothenburg. The tale reminds one slightly of "The Prisoner of Zenda," in the familiar relations which exist between the young English hero and the foreign princess, but here the resemblance stops. The story moves from Austria to England...
...response to Captain Bigelow's call for bicycle men twelve candidates met in the Trophy Room yesterday afternoon. Until the track on Holmes Field is in good condition, the work of the squad will consist of daily gymnasium exercise followed by road riding...
...Brinckerhoff 1 M., E. Warner '98, H. P. White '99, J. F. Wood '99, H. G. Colvin 1 L., H. C. Burdett '98, C. H. Williams 1900, R. A. Feiss 1901, J. L. Ransohoff 1901, M. C. Woodward 1 L., R. Dow 2 L., and G. F. Hurt '99, captain of the squad...
...attempted to drag off the extension ladder, breaking the lock in so doing and rendering removal of the ladder impossible. It could only have been raised by six men experienced in its use, however, and there were but two members of the department on the truck, the captain having run back to ring in a second alarm. The lieutenant of the truck company aided by several undergraduates then hurried to get out the life net which was spread below Henney, and only just in time, for even before it was sufficiently manned he was forced to jump. The smoke...