Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ninety-two men will report at 3 sharp, to Forbes, '92, who will captain them...
Ninety-one men will report at 4, sharp, to Bass, '91, who will be their captain...
Ninety men will report at 4, sharp, to Slocum, their captain...
...CUMNOCK, Captain...
...technicalities. A good physique is more desirable than previously acquired skill. That you have never played before need not deter you from learning now, and if you have not been already urged to play it is far from being proof that your work is not desired. While the captain does his utmost he cannot of course seek every man in person, and yet you who have been inadvertently passed by are perhaps the very ones who by earnest work may bring victory to Harvard, Surely in a case of this kind all reticence and self-distrust should be forgotten...