Word: half
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman Dormitory Scheme" is a timely and serious discussion which will enlighten the Western delegates if they reach it. "The Great Swamp" is a half breed and Indian story, in general plan like Mr. Lawrence Mott's work, with more accuracy but less picturesquencess and dash. In some passages the sentences are monotonously short. "Gentlemen and Seamen" treats of the old merchant sea-captains in New England and of Salem, the old seaport for trade with the East. The feeling in the article is good; but the imperfect workmanship and the tendency to moralize give the effect of a school...
...feature of the game was the grand ninth inning rally of the CRIMSON ball-tossers. At the beginning of the final half the score stood 9 to 4. By hard hitting and clever base-running the CRIMSON team succeeded in bringing five runs over the pan. Then the ha-ha boys, enraged at seeing the game slipping from their hands, doctored up the score, and refused to continue to play. The Lampoon pitcher was carried fainting off the field on account of the terrible ordeal he had been through, and the sun set on another CRIMSON victory...
...Saturday the University golf team defeated Oakley at the Oakley Country Club by the score of 23 points to 5 1-2. Each team was composed of ten men. Each match won counted one point, with one-half point for each hole...
...Severance. Rowing 40 to the minute at the start, Harvard pulled away from the Malta Boat Club crew, and after covering 600 yards was leading by open water. From this point to the finish the second University crew gained steadily, and crossed the line three and one-half lengths ahead, rowing 39 strokes to the minute...
...Saturday afternoon the Weld crew was defeated by Worcester High School in a mile and one-half race on Lake Quinsigamond by three lengths. Although the Weld crew was much heavier and stronger than Worcester, it did not have the ability to sprint and rowed a slow stroke. In the last half of the course Worcester crew away without much effort rowing about 38 to the minute. Worcester's time was 8 minutes, 27 seconds...