Word: fall
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...into our athletic calendar. Hockey, wrestling, and gymnastics have drawn only a fraction of the students into mid-winter sports, and boxing offers additional training for large numbers. Those who cannot compete on University teams have found a novel and strenuous way to bridge over the period between, say, fall tennis and Leiter cup baseball. These practical merits, confirmed by the excellent spirit of the spectators last night who evidenced neither a diletante "high blow" interest in athletics nor on the other hand an excess of violent enthusiasm insure the permanence of "the many art" as a College activity...
When the Freshman dormitories were built last year, thirteen small trees were planted in the plot of land between Smith and Standish Halls. Since the soil was not good, they did not grow very well, and therefore were taken out last fall...
...stand was once a part of the river. But gradually the shore was built out as an ash-heap, so that all the land within one hundred and fifty feet of the river is now made up mostly of ashes. Large wooden piles were uncovered by the workmen last fall when they were taking out the old trees from this land. These piles were foundations of gas wharves at which coal barges used to unload...
Rules were also established for the intercollegiate meet to be held at the University on March 4. In the preliminaries a fall or a decision will count 1 point; in the semi-finals a fall will count 3 points and a decision 2 points; in the finals a fall will count 5 points and a decision 4 points. The time for the preliminary and semi-final matches will be 7 minutes, with two 2-minute extra periods if necessary; in the finals the periods will be 9 minutes with two 3- minute extra periods if necessary. Pairing...
Coach Manning, in charge of rowing at the Weld boathouse, was yesterday made assistant to Coach Haines. He will have complete care of the lower Freshman crews. Manning is an experienced oarsman and did a considerable amount of coaching lower Freshman dormitory crews in an unofficial way during the fall season...