Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Except for their setback in the week's game with the Radio School, the Freshmen have a clean record for the season. Today will mark their first important contest...
...spring number of the Lampoon is a trifle late this year, but we've had a late spring, too. The tardy delivery from the presses is not noticeable except in the case of the editorial on the Princeton ball game, of which the Lampoon speaks in the future tense whereas all of last Sunday's papers dealt with it in the past tense. Or maybe Lampy was referring to the second game of the series late this month...
...five hits and six passes by reason of poor base running and failure to hit in the crucial moment. Twice players were caught off base by the pitcher. Peirson, who, with Gammack formed the University battery, held Portland to four safeties and might have scored a shut-out except for poor support. Wolverton, who replaced Captain Gross at shortstop, played an excellent game in the infield, accepting six chances without error. A double play, Hallo-well to Bright to Johnson, was a feature of the day's play. Dickson at second base made a very pretty catch of Burn...
...call to fight in the trenches, to meet the perils of death in the service of the destroyers on the deep, to drive rivets in the biting blasts of zero weather, to subscribe to Liberty Bonds, to give to the Red Cross and to count nothing of any value except the winning of the war. The man who thinks that Americans may falter is either a traitor at heart or ignorant of the spirit that dominates the American people in this hour. Men of money are coming forward, most of them in a way that is most generous. Shipbuilders...
...Briggs for last Tuesday evening, it was decided not to enter a University team in the Pennsylvania Relays, which take place on April 26 and 27. This action was taken because of the understanding with Yale and Princeton that the three colleges would not engage in formal intercollegiate contests except among themselves. Earlier in the season the project of sending a relay team to Philadelphia was considered, but at that time it was temporarily dropped only to be revived and brought to the attention of the Athletic Committee Tuesday night...