Word: highly
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...interest aroused will be nicely spread over a whole term rather than have it come in one prolonged explosion at the close of the football season and to a less degree the baseball season? The interference is that there will not be enough enthusiasm to be maintained at high pitch during such a long period, and that the result will be an evenly distributed and not too energetic manifestation of interest in the teams, similar perhaps to the mildly manifested eagerness displayed in intellectual pursuits which is causing most of the trouble. Just what would become of the athletes...
...Howe was yesterday elected captain of the Yale track team for 1909. In the dual meet this year he won third place in the 120-yard hurdles and second in the 220-yard hurdles. In the intercollegiates he secured first in the high and fourth in the low hurdles. Last year he won second in the low hurdles against Harvard...
Harvard Crew Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 9, 1908.--All the crews here had comparatively light work today on account of the high wind that kept the water rough. In the morning both eights and the four-oared crews crossed the river and rowed slowly over the first mile of the course, keeping close under the lee of the opposite bank. Coach Wray followed the crews in his single scull...
...broad jump by three men, E. T. Cook of Cornell, Mt. Pleasant of Carlisle, and J. O'Connell of the N. Y. A. C.; and Cartmell of Pennsylvania's winning first in the 200-metre and third in the 100-metre. The remaining events were in general of a high order of excellence...
Yesterday afternoon the practice of the University team was, on the whole, of a high order, especially the batting and base running. One of the most clever pieces of work of the season came when a runner scored from second on Simons's bunt down the first base line; and on the same play, Lanigan, coming all the way from first, was barely put out on a close play at the plate. The batting orders will be: HARVARD. DARTMOUTH. Leonard, 3b. c., F. Leonard McCall, 2b. c.f., Langdell Harvey, c.f. 3b., Hobart Aronson, r.f. r.f., Schildmiller Lanigan, l.f. l.f., Emerson...