Word: fall
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital of Dartmouth College has been completed and will be dedicated this fall...
...they serve an excellent purpose, but the last year or two there has been a tendency to rattle and confuse the players. We trust that this word of warning to the underclasses will not be misunderstood and that there will be no disturbing features to mar any of this fall's games...
...note with pleasure the energy with which the Shooting Club has begun its work this fall. It is very desirable that we win the match with Yale this year and we are in a fair way to do so if the interest already taken in the club be kept up. This year we understand the number of candidates is fairly large, though the officers still hope that there are new men in college who can shoot, and will enter their names with the others. Practice shoots will come off this fall twice each week, while last year only...
...left gaurd, played on the St. Marks eleven; Faxon, centre, played on the Belmont School team; Rice, right guard, and Lewis, right tackle, were both on last year's Noble's eleven; Clark, right end, played end on the champion Hopkinson's team; Borden, quarter-back, was on the Fall River High School eleven; Arnold and Booth played at Exeter, and Gouterman, full-back, played somewhere in the west...
These reports indicate plainly that there is a great deficiency in elementary instruction in English in preparatory schools, a deficiency which the schools themselves should improve, that this instruction may not fall upon the college. There is, perhaps, only one way to force upon schools this need of better instruction and that is to present harder examinations in English till the schools have trained their pupils to the requisite proficiency in composition. In this way the demand for greater proficiency will in time work itself back to the very primary schools and the result will be an improvement...