Word: farness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Although the University team's work on Thursday afternoon was encouraging the team as a whole is not as far advanced as at this time last year. Since the recess the forwards, however, have improved materially in stick work and in ability to follow and keep possession of the puck. Townsend and Macleod follow back well, but the other forwards are slow in starting...
...second round of the annual revolver handicap shoot of the Rifle and Pistol Club will be held this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the baseball cage on Soldiers Field. H. Williams '08 will shoot from scratch, but all other entrants will receive handicaps based on their work so far this year. J. B. West, Jr., '07, with a handicap of 22, made the best score in the first round, getting 87 out of 100. The last round of the shoot will be held on Thursday, January...
While agreeing with the above recommendations as far as they go, I do not think they go far enough to remedy the present demoralization in football. I feel that the game has lost its just proportions by the introduction of mercantile standards, and as a corrective, I advocate the abolition of gate-receipts. I do not see why a match game between students of competing colleges should not be played before invites guests, as in the Army-Navy contest. When a single game between Harvard and Yale brings in gate-receipts of $80,000, I think that commercialism has found...
...formation of a neutral zone between the two teams, as wide as the ball is long, will tend to keep the teams far enough apart to enable the officials to distinctly see every motion of every man in the line, and the fact that the minute a player puts any part of his body into this neutral zone he may be penalized for offside play will do away with much of the rough contact now possible in the line of scrimmage...
...decided that so far as practicable that part of Dane Hall, which was vacated by the removal of the Psychological Library to Emerson Hall, should be assigned to the use both of the courses in public speaking and argumentative composition and of the debating interests of the University. The precise use of these rooms by the interests referred to will be the subject of future arrangement...