Word: finding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hardest problems that faces Coach Coogan at Cornell this year is to find battery strength to re-enforce the weaknesses incurred by the loss of the two excellent batteries, Deshon and Hastings, and Lovejoy and Graves. Caldwell, a football player, who was ineligible last year, gives promise of developing into a good pitcher, and may settle the difficulty. Brown, third baseman, and Bigelow, left fielder, were lost by graduation. Players again eligible are Captain Heilman, short stop; Watson, first base; Gable, pitcher; Ebeling, right field; Reiber, second base; and Higgins and Fulton, outfielders...
...novice Freshman pole vault competition, which was to have been held in the Stadium yesterday, was postponed until today at 4 o'clock on account of the weather. The object of this competition is to try to find any latent talent there may be in the Freshman class, because at present there is but one man training for the pole vault who is eligible for the team...
This afternoon there will be a novice Freshman pole-vault competition in the Stadium at 4 o'clock. The object is to try to find any latent talent there may be in the Freshman class. As it is now there is but one man training for this event who is eligible for the team...
...behind in the race. Experience seems to teach that if the undergraduate interest is turned away from athletic pursuits, it will turn toward social pursuits, at least emasculating, if not vicious. If, with the abolishment of winter sports, the interest does turn toward social things, the Faculty will find itself no better off. We may then look for rules limiting the number of times a month a man may go in town, the number of social clubs he may belong to, or the number of "Brattle Halls" a Freshman may attend during the winter...
Such a dearth as at present exists in the English department scarcely augurs well for the success of the new degree with distinction in history and literature. If a man wished to specialize in the nineteenth century he would find himself at a loss where to turn for material. We would suggest that more pronounced efforts be made to enrich with additional courses a period which has been so neglected this half-year...