Word: excelling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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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...
...order to excel in the French language it is necessary to have a thorough knowledge of its "finesses." These "finesses" are so subtle that a well bred and educated man can speak on any subject before a well bred and educated Frenchwoman without offending her. He illustrated this by telling a story about a Danish officer who translated into Danish some of the short stories of Maupassant and was later prosecuted because in the Danish language the humor of Maupassant had turned into indecency...
...students, it is the needs and aspirations of modern society which suggest them. Much the same may be said concerning the subjects of landscape architecture, and of mining and metallurgy. Modern society needs men highly trained in these subjects, and is prepared to re ward adequately men who excel in them. It is to be observed, however, that this increase in the body of instruction offered would probably not have been made, if the Corporation had realized in the spring of 1900 the financial condition of the departments administered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. They did not then...
...final game of the Leiter Cup series will be played on Holmes Field at 4 o'clock this afternoon between the Dew Drops and the Barristers. Of the two teams the Barristers excel in batting and the Dew Drops in fielding. The Barristers will try a new pitcher--Came of last year's Bowdoin team...