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...players were so badly injured as to make them unfit for further service. Stevenson had his jaw hurt, Acton dislocated his elbow, Dunlop broke his collar bone, and Gray broke his leg. During October, too, the problem of the coaches changed. Early in the season there had been a dearth of rush line players, and a surplusage of backs. But with the return of Waters and Mackie, the improvement of the two Shaws, and the recovery of Emmons from a broken ankle, the line was strengthened remarkably. On the contrary, the halfbacks were doing poorly. In addition to Gray, Stevenson...
...missions. The lower and higher classes of society are being brought closer than ever together by the present hard times, and the rich and the educated are beginning to see that they are in a way responsible for the poor and the ignorant. If there is to be a dearth, therefore, of helpers in the line of missionary endeavor, it is not likely to be felt at home nearly so soon as abroad. The call to leave home and friends to go to a foreign country where everything is uncertain, is not so inviting as work...
...today is of more interest to seniors as a memento of their class dinner than to the college at large. The editorials occupy less space than usual, and are not quite up to the high standard of the past issues under the present board. This is explainable by the dearth of topics which necessitates the selection of the "would-be bloods" as an editorial subject...
...last number of the Monthly, though its general tone is somewhat lighter than that of its precedessors, is excellent in every way with the exception of its verse. The dearth of real poetry of which the editors of our papers are loudly complaining is well illustrated by this number. Of the three contributions in verse, two are of little merit. They are lame in their movement and bare in their thought. The lines "A Picture" are better than the other verse...
...that a captain for the freshman eleven has been chosen, there should be no dearth of men, who will regard it as an honor to play on their class team, and consequently go at it in a way which will betoken defeat to the freshmen from New Haven. There must be no tomfoolery about practicing and everyone should work...