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Since the recess the batting and fielding have been gradually improving. Of the battery candidates the pitchers excel, although the catchers are rapidly overcoming their weakness in throwing. Last Saturday in a practice game the Freshmen defeated Tufts 1909 by a score...
...third place, "be courteous and friendly in your games." The English in general excel the Americans in this respect, with their cordial receptions to visiting teams in the great clubhouses on their athletic fields. The real test of a sportsman is his treatment of his adversary...
...They became greater navigators than the Phoenicians or the Scandinavians, and Homer's Odessey in comparison with St. Brandon's voyages seems but a commonplace trip. No race has been so endowed in the creation of fiction as the common peasants of Brittany and Ireland, who excel the ancient poets in weaving imaginative tales, such as the Arthurean cycle...
...power to soften the brutal instincts which lie hidden in every man. Acting today is becoming specialized, and the range of actors is growing smaller. The actors of the past generation were better in Shakespearian roles than modern actors: but today plays are perfectly mounted and the actors excel in showing the problems of every day life. In modern plays there is less outward motion and more exposition of human consciousness, less noise and more feeling. This new field has been opened by Ibsen. A star play tries to exploit a single personality and so spoils the harmony...
Both teams are fairly strong in defensive work, but the Junior forwards excel in team play. In the preliminary games of the interclass series the Juniors showed better general form against the Seniors than the Sophomores did against the Freshmen, and they should win this afternoon...