Word: goodness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...entire University baseball squad was outdoors yesterday for the first time this week, and an eight-inning practice game was played. Team A defeated team B by the score of 17 to 0. Although the batting was good at times, more runs were scored on fielding errors and wild throws than by hits. Team A was, of course, made up of the more experienced men, and as the score shows, their fielding left little to be desired. The runs were nearly all scored in two innings, when by a combination of timely hits and still more timely errors the bases...
...whole the last Advocate is not as good as several numbers I have seen. It suffers, I think, for being an Easter number...
...Religion of Spring," by Van Wyck Brooks, is a haze of vague expression and puffs of thought. It impresses one like that admirable Turner picture, "Steam and Fog." The longest of three short poems is one by J. H. Wheelock, "The Close of Mass." This has the quality of good poetry, in that it will bear re-reading and inspires thought...
...under the impression that the editors of the Advocate, as well as those of other college papers, make them up, and have difficulty "filling" at the last moment. This is a fatal habit. Why not keep on hand a quantity of good fiction and verse? Much good stuff is to be had from English 12 and English...
...large number of men reported last week for the first week of track practice in the Stadium. Owing to the warm weather the track has been in fairly good condition since Tuesday and is getting harder every day. The track practice has been light, in order that the men may become accustomed to out-of-door work. The sprinters have as a rule taken short runs, and the distance men have run two or three laps. All the field event men are now practicing under the supervision of Mr. Quinn, and the shot-putters and hammer-throwers now work behind...