Word: holding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the new system of dormitories for first year men, it has been decided to hold interdormitory meets in the spring and fall as preliminary to choosing a Freshman team. These competitions will give new men of no experience a chance to discover their ability and to work with men of about equal experience. A valuable solid silver cup has been presented by graduates to be known as the Graduates' Cup, and to be held each year by the dormitory winning the greatest number of points in the fall meet. C. C. Little '10, a former captain and intercollegiate champion...
Next Thursday evening at 7.30 o'clock the members of the Union will hold a reception in the Living Room for the second University crew which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley. This will be the first opportunity which undergraduates have had to honor the men who so distinguished themselves in England last summer. J. Richardson '08, captain of the 1908 crew, will preside, and the speakers will be: Mr. R. F. Herrick '90, who had charge of the men just before the regatta; L. Saltonstall '14, captain of the second crew; and Captain H. A. Murray...
...material for the backfield is especially promising. Glick appears the most likely man for quarter, no one else having been given a serious try-out there. Law and F. Trenkmann, Baker's running mates last year, are in fast company, and will have to work hard to hold down their jobs against Driggs, Dickerman, and Tibbott. The latter is especially dangerous in an open field...
...Coach Roger Greene, the old Pennsylvania lineman, has created a new brand of football at Bates. He had nothing but speed to work with and so he made speed an essential requisite for a position on the team which he has created. The line being too weak to hold off the opponents long enough for a punting game he has developed an exceedingly open and highly daring offence which depends chiefly on the forward pass. In the meantime he has not neglected to prepare and adequate defence. Coach Greene and Director Purinton do not expect to win against Harvard...
...appears from the experience of the last hundred years that these methods of support, combined with the privilege of exemption from taxation, can be trusted in this country to maintain an institution of the first class generation after generation: and that the graduates of such an institution can hold their own in regard to professional success and public service-ableness in competition with the graduates of any other institution of higher education however supported...