Word: falling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University of Pennsylvania has offered a prize cup to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, to be contested for under the same conditions as that won last fall by Harvard. The condition attached to the offer, however, is that the annual tournament be held in Philadelphia instead of in New Haven...
...order to complete the work of the present year, and that the club may start with a strong organization next fall, the membership from the lower classes must be increased. The club is largely composed of Seniors and Juniors, and the class of 1900 is scarcely represented...
...found them rowing in very good shape, far better, indeed, than I had expected. They showed more confidence and greater steadiness, which proved to my mind that they had been carefully thinking out for themselves what they had been learning in the fall, and had been constantly endeavoring to apply these lessons under the guidance of skilful instructors. To put it in a different way: whereas in the fall they had always to be thinking, with the recurrence of every stroke, of the various motions that they had to get through, as of something more or less strange or unaccustomed...
...Perkins, at 5, is a much-improved man, sits up better at the finish and uses his great strength far more to the advantage of the crew. The same may be said of 4, Sprague, who in the fall rowed in a very cramped and ungainly style, though he undoubtedly worked. He has now acquired much greater freedom of movement. His chief fault is a heaviness of the hands at full reach, which often causes him to be late in beginning...
...Bull, '88 S., has announced positively that he will be able to coach the candidates for backs on next fall's team for at least one week some time during the spring. The practice will consist chiefly in starting, punting and passing...