Word: descent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Those who feared that the slump of the University baseball team was incurable cannot hold to that belief in view of the victory over Brown Saturday. As the CRIMSON said last Thursday, the team has too much backbone and baseball ability to relish a protracted descent on the toboggan. In the game with Brown it came out of the slump splendidly and once again displayed championship ability. This should encourage the supporters of the team, who, because of the recent showing have been lax in attendance at the recent games, to renew and increase their interest in the team...
...plot opens with Patricia Blair, long accustomed to wealth and extravagance, suddenly finding herself at the end of her income with nothing in the future but shame and ruin. Her old friend, Arthur Corey, comes to call just as the creditors are about to make their descent on her and seeing no other way out of the matter, since he himself is without wealth, reluctantly advises her to marry young Davis Mills for his money...
...opera suffers from three things. A comedian or Mr. Powers's or Mr. Daniels's type should have the part of Felix; Mr. McCloskey sings well but his humor is rather disappointing. The thing which provoked the heartiest laughter was his unintentional tripping over his sword and his sudden descent upon the leading lady, who was expecting an embrace and not a flying tackle...
...twenty-seven come from without this state; two come from other New England states, six from New York and Pennsylvania, five from the West, and one from the Southwest, Eligibility for class office, at any rate, apparently does not depend upon a candidate's ability to trace his descent from a member of the Mayflower's company...
...each day's events, facing the direction of the wind and in the spot most favorable for the contests. A car running on a six foot track will carry the gliders to the top. The glider will start from the car at any point on the incline, the descent of the car down the slope giving the necessary impetus to the machine. The slope is already practically completed, and it is expected that within a few days several gliders will be there and practice work will begin...