Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...kicking contests are to be held on April 11, under the same rules as last year. Three silver cups have again been offered by I.T. Burr, Jr., '79, W. Burr '84, and A. Burr '89 for excellence in punting, drop and place kicking. The contests will be conducted by the coaches, and accuracy, speed, height, placing and distance will all be considered. In accordance with last year's rules, one man can win but one cup in one season, although he may enter the competition for all three cups...
...shorter stories seem the better. "Our Visitors" and "Epitaph on a Maid-of-all-work" by H. W. Longfellow are especially good, "To a Drop of Fresh Pond Water" by Curtis Guild, Jr., '81, and "The Maiden's Gambit" by F. J. Stimson '76, show no signs of age except in the appended dates of their respective authors...
...soft' courses and 'snap-hunting'; for these words express the commone objections to the elective system. The statistical tables relate to the following points in the working of an elective system: what percentage of each class choose little or nothing but elementary work throughout their College course; what percentage drop the Classics immediately on entering College, or at the beginning of the Sophomore year; what percentage drop mathematics immediately on entering College; what percentage begin to specialize not later than the Sophomore year--that is, take at least half their work in one department; what percentage begin to specialize...
...competition will be in place kicking, drop kicking, and punting, and cups will be given to the winner of each contest. Each contestant will be given three trials and the judges will consider in their decisions the effectiveness of the kicks. The three judges have not yet been appointed...
...required. These teas, which will be continued on Friday afternoons during the next three months, are designed to give students an opportunity to meet their instructors in a social way and also some of the wives of the members of the Faculty. It is hoped that men will drop in if they find that they have an opportunity, without necessarily having made any previous preparation...