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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...general accurate. The outfielders, who are slow in starting and poor in judging fly balls, have made little improvement up to the present time. The battery candidates show promise of fair ability. In batting, all the men, through over-anxiety, exercise very poor judgment and tend to strike often at wide balls...
...current number of the Advocate contains a large amount than usual or serious verse--the kind of verse which, because it calls for the application of greater powers than the usual poems of lighter verse, more often bears the stamp of maturity and permanence. The verse in the issue, "The River Wall" and "To the Evening Star," avoids the common fault of mistaking obscurity for suggestiveness, and is moreover, exceptional for its musical fluency, delicacy of thought and happiness in choice of rhyme. The editorials are timely and pointed, but beside these, the prose in the issue merits little praise...
...will occur at the beginning of the season, and one settled team will be kept together as much as possible. More attention will be given to signal practice than heretofore. In addition, the substitutes will have more work than has been the custom recently, as they will be played often on the second eleven in the scrimmages against the University team...
...expected at the close of the season, the work last night showed considerable improvement over the crude playing in the early part of the week. The men pass fairly well, the chiefs faults in this particular being a tendency to neglect chances for long, open throws. This fault often serves to give the opposing team time to cover thoroughly before the ball reaches the vicinity of the goal and thus makes difficult a throw which, had it been made in the first place from a distance, would have been comparatively easy. With the exception of Grant, who has been taken...
...however, the men were unable to score at all, while the Cornell team had little difficulty in scoring 9 points. The University team was unlucky in its throws in the second half, and furthermore the defense was weakened by poor covering. The teamwork, though fairly accurate, was slow and often failed in advancing the ball. Bigelow alone, who took Fosdick's place at left guard, played individually an especially strong game...