Word: fields
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Soldiers Field took on a more normal fall aspect yesterday when 63 members of 1921 reported to Coach D. J. Wallace '16 for Freshman football practice. The men were divided into small squads and drilled in the rudiments of the game, W. Rollins '16, W. R. Snow '18, V. F. Likins '18, G. D. Flynn '19, and F. C. Church '20 volunteering in the coaching of the candidates. The candidates were drilled chiefly in falling on and running with the ball, Coach Wallace giving the men over an hour's work for the first day of practice...
...opportunity to engage in fall practice in baseball, track, and rowing will be offered to all members of the College this year. Coach Hugh Duffy will meet all baseball candidates from the Freshman and other classes at Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock, at which time plans for the fall season will be outlined. It is expected that informal games will be staged with nearby teams, and that interdormitory and interclass contests will be had, provided enough men report...
...track and cross-country candidates, Coach Edward Farrell will be at Soldiers Field this afternoon at 5 o'clock, and all from the Freshman and other classes who wish to take advantage of this fall training are to report at that time. Cross-country men are particularly wanted. In this sport also, it is hoped that informal races will be held with teams in the vicinity of Boston. The great use which has been made of distance runners in the French army as agents de liaison demonstrates the practical value of this branch of sport...
...like to regard as the real things of life. First there is the self-made man whose marvelous success so biases his personal opinions that he is unable to think except in terms of self. Then comes the trained specialist whose whole education has been limited to a certain field and who has completely disregarded whatever was irrelevant to his chosen province. It is true this fellow will admit that one may get a start in the right direction at college, the right direction being his own field of work, but a liberal education he considers a waste of valuable...
...when war became upper-most in the minds of the American people, the colleges took up their torches to proceed in that direction. It was a new subject, but the business of teaching was as old as the hills. They immediately sought those who were best in the field of war and brought them into an atmosphere where the idea of thorough instruction was per-eminent. And when the wheels were set going the product was looked at and found to be good. It is being proved good now and will be proved better soon...