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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...success in many places of interscholastic rowing associations. From these sources have sprung a body of men whose interest has been aroused and whose attitude toward rowing is very different from that of the average university oar of the past. More intelligent methods of training and a dawning idea that rowing is not a drudgery, but a sport and a recreation, have worked great changes in the attitude of the men, and many of them have now become actively interested in rowing clubs after graduation. From this body of men the new rowing organization has emanated and on them...
...play Bates in its second home game of the season this afternoon at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field. Clarkson will pitch and Carr and Marshall will play in the outfield. This is the first game since the Southern trip, and will offer a good chance to get an idea of the strength of the nine...
...only twenty-three men signed the blue book at Leavitt's for the tug, the management has been forced to give up the idea of having...
...have been gradep and have made fair progress but are not rowing as well as they should. The Weld crews are still unsettled in their positions but are somewhat better together than the corresponding crews at the Newell. In general, however, they are slow and clumsy and have little idea of finish in the boat. The second crew has life and dash, but is still too ragged. The orders have been as follows...
...Union by the Boer delegates, on the subject of the South African war, I would recommend through you to the management of the Union, the advisability, in the interest of truth and fair play, of securing some competent speaker to present the other side of the case. If this idea seems, for any reason, to be impracticable, I would suggest that those who listened to Messrs. Muller and van Broekhuizen might find it advantageous, before passing judgment on the subject discussed, to read what Conan Doyle has to say on pages 112-114 of his recent book, "The South African...