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Yesterday afternoon the University baseball team played its first practice game of the season with the second in a six-inning match on the Freshman diamond. Although much drier than heretofore, the field was still very soggy about the pitcher's box and the home plate, making accurate work impossible. The ragged fielding may be partly accounted for by the cold wind which blew across the field. Neither team was aggressive, and both were careless in the execution of the minor details practiced in the Cage. In running bases the men were inclined to be shiftless, and the coaches...
...different. We have the word of a member of the athletic committee, the chairman of the sub-committee on grounds and buildings, that he personally visited Soldiers and Jarvis Fields this year three weeks before the April recess, examined both, and was of opinion that Soldiers was the drier. Such being the fact, the strongest objection which baseball men can urge against devoting Jarvis to tennis, fails...
...line of advance in study of geography, a wakening an interest in the structure of land and the causes of its various forms which could never be felt in the mere names, boundaries and inhabitants of countries. Such study of itself carries interest into these drier facts, fixing names in the memory as denoting the regions of the various peculiarities of land-formation. In late years the knowledge of the more irregular parts of our continent has much advanced and consequently that of the whole structure, since the mountain regions give the main clues to the great geological movements. They...