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...next spring's baseball nine will begin with battery practice in the baseball cage on Soldiers Field at 3.30 this afternoon. The work for the present will be confined to men who have been candidates heretofore, and there will be no general calling out of candidates until after the midyear examinations. The men who will begin work today are: I. T. Cutter '03, P. N. Coburn '03, H. S. Hutchinson '04, R. R. Alexander '04, B. K. Stephenson '06, R. E. Hammond '03, J. A. Tuckerman...
...brisk run. Today the Freshman squad will report for work on the machines, and hereafter the two squads will row regularly on alternate days. For the present the University squad will practice on the machines and in the rowing tank. This work will continue until the beginning of the midyear examinations, after which the regular daily training will begin...
...first Vesper Service of the year will be held in Appleton Chapel at 5 o'clock on Thursday afternoon. The Vesper Services will be held this year, as heretofore, each Thursday afternoon until the Easter vacation, except in the weeks of the midyear examination period...
...call for candidates for the university and freshman crews has already been made, and the freshmen have begun preliminary work with the rowing machines. Five men of the 1900 university crew are in college, and they, with the other candidates, will begin practice after the midyear examinations. The average age of the candidates for the university crew is 21 years and 6 months, and the average weight 164 pounds; of the freshmen the average age is 19 years and the weight 151 pounds...
...present, it is yet by no means sure that a longer holiday would not be advisable. Other colleges find it possible to grant a week more than Harvard, and in at least two cases they require fully as much work during the college year. A longer break before the midyear period would be very acceptable to all and beneficial to a large majority of under-graduates. A Christmas trip would be as popular now with the members of the musical clubs as it was in former times, and would do more than any one thing to restore them...