Word: gain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...order to prevent jockeying and delaying the game the rule allowing a first down on a loss of twenty yards has been changed so that if one team loses twenty yards to gain first down the ball must change hands before this rule is taken advantage of again...
...pick the ball cleanly off the bat. Jaynes lacks experience and is weak in flies that come over his head, but he is improving in batting. Christenson's work, though fair, needs activity and life. Stewart is another one of the men who are constantly improving as they gain more experience. His work on the bases is very promising and his weakness in fielding is partly made up for by his good throwing...
...Saturday's play in the duplicate whist contest Harvard make a net gain of 17 -- 12 in the afternoon and five in the evening. Harvard played a straight long suit game and Yale played an irregular lead, showing strength in trumps. The total tricks were: Harvard 47, Yale 30. Harvard now holds a record of six victories during the last six years. The players were: Harvard--A. J. Halle 2L., E. D. Fullerton 2L., H. H. Fox '00, A. R. Campbell 1L., M. Hyman 1L., M. G. Beaman 1L., E. S. Foster '01, and N. S. Kelly 2L. Yale...
...once the pride and strong hold of dramatic art in Germany and Austria." In every German city of any size there is a princely or municipal theatre carried on by the state or city, and both of these two classes of theatres are managed less for private gain than for the sake...
...cent. from the central section, 58 3-4 per cent. from the western, 55 1-4 per cent. from the southern and 57 per cent. from foreign countries. The attendance at Harvard is 4 7-8 per cent. larger than last year, while Yale has gained less than 1-4 per cent. Harvard has gained 3 per cent. in the northeast, 9 per cent. in the central states, 5 3-4 per cent. in the west, 21 1-2 per cent. in the south, and 19 per cent in foreign countries. Yale has gained 3 1-4 per cent...