Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...practice at Soldiers' Field yesterday afternoon consisted chiefly of a light squad drill and individual coaching for the men. There was also considerable practice in punting and drop-kicking. R. H. Bond '19 got a pretty goal from the field from the 30-yard line and there was marked improvement in the punting...
...through you the many users of the Widener Library, to help us keep the building in good condition. For example--almost two thousand persons pass in and out of the north door and up and down the broad steps every day. It is natural that some should drop matches or cigarette stubs or scraps of paper as they go. But if everyone would use the receptacle at the top of the steps, placed there to hold such odds and ends, it would greatly improve the approach to the building. Moreover, tobacco, when wet by rain, makes an ugly stain...
Formerly there were many foreign students. Until 1915 the number was 4,750, but it has now fallen to 1,505. The drop is due to the departure of enemy students and the decrease of students from friendly and neutral countries. Still, all alien and enemy students have not gone; there are sixty-two Russian students, two English five Italian and one Belgian, but they are doubtless of German origin, or possibly a cosmopolitan class of mosaic nationality. New York...
After scrimmage was over, Assistant Coach Palmer, star drop-kicker of last year's eleven, spent a long time with the kicking candidates. Among the most promising is Walter Mack 1919, who is showing up well in practice...
...tastes. Usually the man remains in the course, resigns himself to the fact that he will be bored, and determines to do as little work as possible. With slight effort this misfortune can be averted. Provided a student has a reason worthy of consideration he is allowed to drop a course any time before Saturday, October 7. If the particular course happens to be one selected last May, it is usually more difficult to change it, yet with a substantial excuse it is possible. During the next few days there is ample time for men who are doubtful of courses...