Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduate representatives on the committee are David Bullard Arnold '18, of Boston; Henry Hardwick Faxon '21, of Quincy; and Robert Ellsworth Gross '19, of West Newton. Arnold was assistant crew manager, when he left College in his Junior year. Faxon was Freshman football captain and president of his class last year, and Gross was captain of the baseball and hockey teams last year...
Among those of the University squad who have returned or are expected before spring are: B. Lewis '20, last year's University captain, D. F. O'Connell '21, R. W. Harwood '20, C. A. Clark '19, A. Stevens '19, A Perkins '19, J. Coggeshall, Jr., captain of the 1918 Freshman team and J. D. Hutchinson, captain of the 1919 yearling squad...
...Captain John Case Phelps, L. '06-'07, has been reported killed in action in France...
...Better 'Ole" purports to represent a faithful picture of Tommy Atkins as made famous through Captain Bairns-father's cartoons. Therefore its chief characteristic naturally is humor, which, blended with some of the softer feelings which find such remarkable expression in the private soldier, is sustained throughout the entire play. A perfectly impossible plot gives the series of seven "splinters" and a "short gas attack" a slight backbone. The story centres about Old Bill's discovery of a German plot, his blowing up of the strategic bridge, and his subsequent court martial and award...
...main interest centres around the characters of Captain Bairns-father's "Three Muskrats": Bert, Alf, and Old Bill. Mr. Edmund Gurney, as Old Bill, seemed to have stepped right out of "Fragments from France." A fine old walrus he was, blowing his drooping whiskers up from his mouth and expressing all emotions by the intelligent ejaculation, 'Ullo! As Alf, of the patent cigar lighter which would never light, Mr. Percy Jennings gave a very realistic representation of that cheerful, red headed little Irishman of the type which seems to have almost disappeared in these days of Teuton plots and Sinn...