Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...verse play, however, brings out even in professionals all covert faults of enunciation and intonation. Indistinctness even among the most experienced in the Delta Upsilon cast was marked. Moreover, time has made stale so many of the lines which originally delighted an audience that the comedy must be played fast, with skillful pointing of the lines and some building up by action to make places weak for a modern audience produce their old effect. There was too much over-rapid speech with slowness on cues. The cast should act not merely while speaking but steadily, keeping well within the picture...
...backfield is particularly strong with Captain Barron, Rushmore, Francke, and Weston. The forwards are fairly fast, but only recently have they developed team work, and their shooting is still erratic. Nichols at goal played consistently all fall and should be a strong man for that position this spring. With this early start, and several practice games, Coach Burgess and Captain Barron should be able to develop an excellent team before the intercollegiate season opens...
...schoolboy indoor, track and field championships will be held this afternoon in Mechanics Building, Boston, at 2.30 o'clock. The dashes, in particular, are expected to be fast and closely contested, for such sprinters as Teschner, of Exeter, Sharpe of Worcester, Rice of Powder Point, and McCarthy of Boston College High, are entered. There are also a large number of relay races scheduled, some of which will be exceedingly close...
...University soccer team will hold its first practice on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. It is hoped that a large squad will report as a hard schedule is being prepared, and it is desired to round the team into form as fast as possible. Coach Burgess will be on the field, and the entire squad will be under his and Captain Barron's supervision...
...length of the rink was shortened by boards in order to accustom the players to the small ice area on which the game will be played. After drilling the forwards in passing, the first team lined up against the substitutes and defeated them, 3 to 2, in a fast and stubborn scrimmage of 20 minutes' duration. The defensive work on both sides was good, and especially the goaltending, for during the greater part of the scrimmage shots were constantly being aimed at the cages by both teams...