Word: hold
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...least expected, and a captain's work consists in searching out just such material and testing its unknown qualities. The track captain is in a constantly restless condition. No matter how good a necleus of pointwinners he has, he inevitably feels that there are men whom he might get hold of, who could jump or run if they only know it. The sports for which he is responsible, are not such as of necessity require the previous knowledge and training which put their mark on the promising football or baseball candidate...
...poet to be, in the eyes of the public he will hold his position with the manifested approval of the majority of his class, and if he is elected by an actual minority, his office will mean much less...
...many mud flats and where so many of the bridges are too low to pass under at high tide. It was used yesterday afternoon and proved much faster than the "John Harvard." It has a maximum speed of about fifteen and one-half knots an hour and will hold from twenty to thirty people. The old launch could not hold more than about fourteen people comfortably. The "Frank Thompson" is finished completely in mahogany...
...Intercollegiaie Shooting Association will hold its first shoot at New Haven tomorrow. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, and Columbla will compete. Each man will shoot at thirty birds flown at unknown angles. The prizes will be the Intercollegiate Cup for the winning college, a team cup, and a cup for the best individual score...
Beginning with yesterday afternoon the band will hold a series of rehearsals preparatory to playing at the Yale and Princeton baseball games, and probably at the track games with Yale on May 14. Hitherto the band has always been a half passive organization that has come to life only for important athletic events and for Class Day. This year it hopes also to give a few yard concerts...