Word: outing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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June 18. Members and sons will leave Copley Square, Boston, at 3 o'clock, for an outing and dinner at the Hoosic Whisick Club, Canton...
...drink during the bloodletting and then there was rollicking song. Setting-up exercises imparted verve for more talk of autopsies. Not all the proceedings became known to the public. The newspaper reporters present, strange to say, early lost interest. Not so the morticians. To the end they enjoyed their outing...
What exactly did these Pacific manoeuvres demonstrate? To be sure, they were educational for all participants, against the value of which, however, must be balanced the expenditure of several millions of dollars. The navy and army both had a splendid outing, some experience in testing theories, and, despite the feeling aroused by the contest, unanimous pleasure in conducting the sham manoeuvres. The significance of aviation in modern warfare may have been brought out more emphatically than before, but surely this disclosure is searcely so new that it needs a whole fleet to test...
Practice yesterday started with two changes in the University squad which have been made since the team's last outing. B. H. Rice '25, star second baseman and captain of the second team last year, was placed on Coach Mahan's first list. The promotion came after the two-inning game last Friday when Rice was given a permanent raise from Coach Lake's supervision. The other change was but a temporary shift in which H. L. DeRham '27 was moved up to substitute for A. W. Samborski '25 as first string catcher, Samborski being out of the game...
...hills of Hanover, N. H., met the sturdy sons of McGill University, Williams, New Hampshire State and Dartmouth Colleges for the winter sports carnival of the Dartmouth Outing Club. Among those snowy hills, they vied with one another with revels, games. McGill, not being a member of the intercollegiate winter sports union, was not concerned in the score, though ardently it competed with the others. Contestants webbed their feet with snowshoes, raced a 150-yard snowshoe dash; they laced long runners to their feet and maneuvered before judges (ski proficiency test) ; they shot down a steep bank on skis...