Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale game. The officials chosen tentatively to officiate in the 1927 football games were also accepted as well as the schedules and changes in schedules proposed for next year for the second hockey team, the Freshman hockey team, and the Freshman basketball team. It was voted besides to drop Columbia from the University basketball schedule and to add the University of Maine...
...material residue of meteors, which reaches the earth. The largest meteorite actually seen to fall, landed its 547 pounds at Knyahinya, Hungary, in 1866. However, masses have been found weighing up to 50 tons, which have the characteristics of meteorites. A fused crust indicating intense heating in the drop through the air is noticeable on all meteorites. About one-third of the earth's elements have been found in meteorites; most of them resemble stones; a few contain a large percentage of iron ore. Perhaps the most famed meteorite of history was the black, cone-shaped stone which fell...
With the narrowing down of the baseball schedule and the improved pitching met with in games with more powerful teams, the batting average of the University nine has taken a decided drop. Investigation of the batting and fielding figures, exclusive of yesterday's tilt with Georgetown discloses that while the defense has tightened enough to raise its fielding record seven points, the hitting, despite the outburst against the University of Maine, has fallen ten notches. From a 304 mark the figure of the Crimson hitsmiths has shrunk to 294, the lowest since the southern trip, and the first average below...
...unfortunate that Harvard should choose to drop Brown from her regular place on the schedule without first arranging her 1928 cards so that the annual contest might be played at another and more favorable date. We are confident that, even if the elevens representing Brown and Harvard do not meet in 1928, the long list of contests between the two institutions will be continued...
After maintaining a faultless defense against the desperate endeavors of the Holy Cross team last Wednesday, the University fielders showed the effects of wet grounds and slippery pellets in their next two games. The result was a drop in the former fielding figure of 963 to the present mark of 939. Individual averages suffered a like dropping off, the responsibility for the team's miscues being pretty evenly divided among the various players. Jones is the only player who has been in action regularly who has maintained a perfect fielding record...