Word: fall
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work last fall consisted of very slow paddling, and the stroke was kept low with the aim of teaching the crew to row smoothly. Considerable time was devoted to trying out strokes in all three crews on the squad. In the first crew Bacon was tried for the first month, and then Sargent was put in. At the end of the fall rowing a race was held over the four mile course in order to try out the men; and the rowing of the University crew in that race was fairly smooth. This spring six men picked from the dormitory...
...attitude taken by swimmers is the same as that taken by all other participants in winter sports--that it is an injustice to abolish all forms of intercollegiate winter sport in order to save the schedules of fall and spring sports in their entirety. The proposed "reform" appears to their minds more punitive than corrective...
...football schedule is exactly the same as last fall, except that the Springfield Training School is played one week earlier, and Annapolis a week later. Following is the schedule...
Gibbon's ambition from early youth, he said, was to be a writer of history, and his early life was one of constant study and preparation for his great life work, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." This work is one of the greatest historical works written, and has placed Gibbon with Hume and Robertson at the head of English historians. Gibbon's idea was that history, besides the necessary technicalities, should be literature, and this was a great factor in his success...
Professor Rhodes cited a few criticisms of Gibbon by his contemporary historians, and in conclusion said that his great work. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," was a masterly work, a basis for the study of all history...