Word: handing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American camps, on the other hand, in so far as we have allowed officers any additional instruction after they have completed their first "Plattsburg" training and received their commissions, it has been given them chiefly in conjunction with the manifold duties of their regular commands. They have remained responsible for carrying out the drill and instruction of the men in their companies. The result has been that advanced courses under the British and French officers could not be pursued with the singleness of purpose, the freshness of mental and physical effort, necessary to the task. The Americans were already...
...however, in "The Hand of God," by Mr. Strout, and "A Glow of Sacred Fire," by Mr. Henderson, both of them stories of rural life and both of them tragic in theme, that the excellence of the present number of the Advocate chiefly consists. Dialect presents many difficulties even for the trained hand, and in this regard Mr. Strout and Mr. Henderson have acquitted themselves remarkably well. Of the two stories the former is the more ambitious, and is, perhaps, partly on that account, the more uneven. The semi-detached prelude, in which for a moment the author intrudes...
...showing made in the contest with the Elis was far from satisfactory, particularly in hitting, which has been regarded as the team's strong point throughout the preliminary engagements. On the other hand the nine displayed marked improvement in the field and with more practice will present a steady defence in the two remaining collegiate contests with Yale and Princeton...
Early yesterday morning a fire broke out in the tailoring shop in the rear of the third floor of the Harvard Co-operative Society, gutting the entire attic and most of the third floor before the Cambridge Fire Department succeeded in getting the blaze in hand. Flames were first discovered by the watchman, who turned in a first alarm at 3.27 o'clock. This failed to work and it was not until the whole roof was ablaze that engines arrived on the scene. Three-quarters of an hour was spent before the flames were controlled, and in that time...
...comparison of scores of the four games played by both nines this season, Yale will be the favorite to win when they meet the University on Soldiers Field tomorrow afternoon in the first baseball contest between the two universities since June, 1916. But on the other hand, the University has encountered far stronger opposition than the Elis in the three service nines of the Portland Naval Reserve, the Boston Navy Yard, and Camp Devens. Princeton, the only nine both teams have met, was defeated in each case by a close score...