Word: ground
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...winners of each section shooting two out of three matches in the finals. Members of the winning team will receive cups. Each team will be composed of four men, who will shoot at fifty birds at unknown angles. The matches will be held at Wellington, until the club procures ground...
...Lands, digging fossil remains of pre-historic monsters, and many adventures unusual in accounts of travel in the Indian country. Among the interesting events he will mention are a journey into the wilderness with the discoverer of the cliff-dwellings and an exploring trip for miles under-ground in a newly discovered cave in the Black Hills...
...punting, Mitchell out-classed LeMoyne; the former's kicks were from five to fifteen yards longer than LeMoyne's, and were invariably higher and carried better. LeMoyne's poor showing in punting was largely due to Parkinson's erratic passing. A synopsis of the ground gained by the two teams shows bow large a part punting played in Yale's victory. Although Harvard gained by straight rushing 130 yards more than Yale, Yale on punting gained 230 yards more than Harvard...
...fast and brilliant runner, and fights for every inch after being tackled, but is apt to rely too much on his own efforts. On plays through the line he lacks power; in the secondary defense he is uncertain. Schoellkopf is a hard plunging back on line plays, a sure ground gainer, and very effective on the defense. Hurley starts quickly, and runs swiftly; on the defense he is too light to be of maximum assistance...
Professor William James, on behalf of the Faculty, welcomed the Germanic Museum as an addition to our general back-ground of culture. He spoke of the spirit of study here.--minute research, mainly, as derived from Germany, and said that Harvard could recognize its own spirit of great individuality in these objects of plastic art. He compared the Germanic with the Classic spirit in art. Bacon expressed the Germanic spirit when he wrote "there is no excellent beauty without some strangeness in the proportion." The Mediterranean spirit has always sought to avoid strangeness, and there by its works...