Word: fives
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...measure to the better chances for practice in this vicinity where continuously cold winters were once in order. Of recent years the weather authorities have adopted different tactics and today an advantage in latitude is of less consequence than access to artificial ice. The University team has had just five days of practice on ice in Cambridge, including the games played, and but for the time spent in New York during the holidays it would be hopelessly handicapped in the game with Princeton tonight...
Harvard has won five of the six games played with Princeton, losing in 1907 to a championship team by a score of four to three. From all accounts, the championship this year will probably be determined by this game. In their playing in New York during the recess, the University team appeared to be unusually strong. Some of the athletic club teams which they met expressed the opinion that this year's seven is the strongest college team they had ever played. It remains to be seen how much of this skill has been lost through lack of practice...
...University team was beaten by Technology, as the latter had a remarkably strong five and it was the University team's first game. E. S. Allen '09 and E. S. Currie '09 are the only members back from last year's team, but H. B. Sheahan '11 and F. C. Wellman '11 have developed into speedy players since practice began. P. Newton '11 plays a reliable game at centre and gives promise of becoming a remarkable player...
...with events and experiences connected with the speaker's own class: its fondness for athletics, its devotion to the old-time system of prescribed studies, its literary efforts and finally its misdemeanors, culminating in an actual rebellion against the Faculty. This same disorderly and rebellious class has furnished five members of the Board of Overseers...
...priority in rank alone. It is not stipulated that the entire number be elected and if the society cannot find eight and twenty-two men respectively in the lists referred to they are obliged to take only those men who fulfill their idea of the requirements. In addition, five men are to be chosen from the Senior class who would not be eligible under the provision stated above but who have distinguished themselves in other ways...