Word: following
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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About 35 men have already been dropped from the number of candidates for the freshman crew. The rest are now being coached in body and arm work by Vail, L. S. After the work in the rowing room they go through the customary dumb bell exercise and follow it up with a short run. It is impossible to make a proper estimate of the material until after the close of the football season, when some of the heavier men will begin rowing...
...team are slowness in executing plays, and fumbling of the ball by the backs and tackles. The line, although it is rather light, has possibilities which are very encouraging. The centre shows up well, Hallowell especially being a hard and conscientious worker. The backs are light, but eager to follow the advice of the coaches. The men need to show more determination if they expect to make a creditable appearance in the class games...
...will derive so much benefit from this work that it will enable them to start work in the spring with better development than has usually been the case. The men have been rowing on alternate days in the four oared shell, the crews being made up as follow...
...Copeland will speak on the "Obsolescent Art of Reading Aloud," and will follow his lecture with readings from Shakespeare, Fielding and other authors. Concerning the importance of the subject and the intimacy of its relation to student life there can be no doubt. The art of reading aloud is passing into disuse and we are thus giving up one of the best means of making ourselves agreeable and profitable companions for our friends. That we read poorly and speak poorly is a matter of personal experience with most of us. The average college man does not pronounce his words plainly...
...often been the case that men who deserve places on the ticket have been defeated simply because their classmates had insufficient moral courage to vote as they ought. There is a class of unprincipled men in every large gathering who are only too willing to follow any leader who tickles their fancy with a tale of wonderful exploits or with a hope of preferment of one kind or another. These men, weak as they are individually, form a formidable body when many of them get together, so formidable a body in fact, that often the tide of fortune turns entirely...