Word: handed
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Walsh of Massachusetts is as follows: Born: Leominster, Worcester Co., Mass., Nov. 11, 1872. Start in life: Picking and peddling blueberries. Career: He was the ninth of ten children in a poor Irish Catholic family. His father was a factory hand pressing cattle horns into combs. The factory closed. The father died. Spindly-legged David Ignatius, aged 7, trudged over the hills around Worcester to gather wild berries and sell them. He picked enough, and did enough odd jobs, newspaper-selling, errand-running, to put himself through school. He was president of his class. From Holy Cross he was graduated...
...influence on the final outcome of the game. If the shifty Blue Sophomore can reach the heights to which he attained in several of the season's earlier contests, the feeling in the higher New Haven circles seems to be that the Elis will emerge victorious. On the other hand if Booth is either hors de combat or not up to his best form it would not be at all surprising to see the Crimson attack sweep on to its second victory in as many years...
...Connell, dean of the Harvard squad of ends which is one of the best that Coach Bradford has produced in a number of years. He and Douglas will today have their own little battle on hand when they will try to match the play of Barres and Hickok, Yale's speedy wingmen...
Obviously, every sport does not present equal opportunities for the promotion of the intramural objectives. The football field, for example, is a splendid laboratory for experiments in all these aims. The tennis court, on the other hand, does not provide such valuable opportunities. Much greater lessons have been learned and taught on the gridiron than on the court. Nevertheless, the individual game is stressed just as much, if not more, than the team game because the former provides the student with a type of exercise he can use after graduation...
...Class series, on the other hand, has a very definite objective. The winners of the series receive their numerals, have their names inscribed on a permanent class trophy, play against the winning Yale class team and in case of victory over Yale, receive medals. This fall the winning Sophomores who defeated the Yale Seniors at New Haven 26-0 are very proud with all these honors. In addition they have been chosen by J. L. Knox, coach of the Second Varsity, to demonstrate Holy Cross and Yale plays for the Varsity team...