Word: fell
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...leading basketball authorities were published in the News on Tuesday on the reasons for the perceptibly waning interest in the game at Yale, and the prospects for awakening enthusiasm were discussed. When Harvard, always Yale's warmest rival, abandoned basketball as an intercollegiate sport, the interest at New Haven fell in consequence...
...always comes upon Cambridge. Why is it, then, that the teams in the minor sports continue, year after year, to have few candidates and to be of lower caliber than the size of the University warrants? Wrestling, swimming and gymnastics have had a precarious existence for some time; basketball fell by the wayside long ago. Yet these same sports are enthusiastically entered in to at all other colleges. Undergraduates are content to have Harvard lamely represented in the minor sports although these offer an opportunity of great physical improvement, and exercise at the time of year when it is hardest...
...Harvard and to fix several points in mind. In the first place, Sophomore Composition some years ago was a prescribed course. Then, when a later ruling did away with its prescription, allowing Sophomores to elect English 22 or 31 if they chose, the enrollment in Composition among Sophomores fell off appreciably, showing that some men had no desire to continue their Freshman work in English A. But the registration in the Sophomore elective Composition courses still remained very large; in 1904-05 it was one hundred and forty, which was an average enrollment. The present rule governing Sophomore English Composition...
...contests has been a tie. The first touchdown was made in the first period and came as the result of straight rushes from midfield. The second was the result of a freak play when Barrett, trying for a field goal kicked the ball across the line and Fritz fell on it. The last score came at the end of the third periods. Fritz and Barrett starred for the winners, while Captain Young played the best game for Pennsylvania...
...saddest accidents in the history of the University occurred early Sunday morning, November 16, when John R. A. Lannon, of the sophomore class fell from his window in the second floor of Durfee Hall, sustaining a fracture of the skull which killed him instantly. The exact cause of his fall is not known, but it is generally believed to have been the direct result of somnambulism...