Word: fall
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sport. With the possible exception of rowing, there is no exercise which makes such a demand upon the grit and stamina of the athlete, and which leaves him in such an exhausted condition. Moreover, the distance runners in the spring are often the cross-country runners of the preceding fall. At Yale the letter is awarded to those runners who finish within twelfth place in the intercollegiate run, whether Yale wins the run or not. This does not cheapen the letter, for to secure even twelfth place in such an event requires great qualities. I think the Athletic Association should...
...Harvard Dramatic Club announces an extension of the competition for the poster to advertise its fall production, "The Scarecrow," to be given in Cambridge and Boston the first week in December. Drawings will be received by G. S. Deming '10, Holworthy 10, until 6 o'clock tomorrow evening...
...annual fall handicap, scratch, and novice shoots started last week at the traps on Soldiers Field were completed yesterday afternoon. B. M. Higginson '10, captain of the University shooting team, won the scratch cup with a score of 88 out of a possible 100 birds. J. Heard, Jr., '12, was second with 86. In the handicap shoot J. C. P. Bartholf '13, with a handicap of 8 and J. Heard, Jr., '12, also with a handicap of 8, tied for first place with the score of 86. W. Draper '13 won the novice cup with 81 birds...
...great game. The leading article, by Mr. W. D. Sullivan '83 of the Boston Globe, has the great merit, rare in prophetic literature that it can be read after the event quite as well as before. It explains, simply and clearly, the situations which had to be met this fall by the coaches at New Haven and at Cambridge, and the methods followed in building up the two teams. Worth reading before the game, by reason of the light it throws on the present position of the elevens, it should be equally valuable after the outcome is decided...
...University and Freshman shooting teams will hold their annual fall meets with Yale at the traps on Soldiers Field this morning at 9.30 o'clock. The four teams will shoot in groups of five men each at fifty birds in strings of twenty-five...