Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Farabee, instructor in the Department of Anthropology, will conduct a party on an anthropological trip through the west, starting immediately after Commencement. The party will visit in particular the Cahokia mound group and the Exposition at St. Louis, the archaeological remains and the modern Pueblos of northern Arizona and New Mexico, the Grand Canon, the shell formations of California, and the Canadian Rockies. Stops will be made wherever there are opportunities for investigation, and the trip will end the latter part of August...
...practice every day in pitching to the University squad during batting practice. They have been coached especially in curves and control, strikes and balls being counted for the first time, and in this respect have showed satisfactory improvement as well as in speed. In the work of the catchers, particular attention has been given to side stepping and to throwing to second base. Although they work hard, they suffer under the disadvantage of being inexperienced and their work has not been so good as that of the pitchers. The battery squads have been under the direction of Coach Frantz, Chesbro...
...arguments for the use of the Stadium are negative: the elimination of danger from fire, and the desired seating capacity are, one may say, necessities, and are not intrinsic advantages to be found in the Stadium itself: it is merely that the Stadium satisfies the requirement in this particular--but no better than could the Yard...
...learning to meet the ball squarely. The afternoon work has been devoted to fielding ground balls, and practice in double plays, sliding, and running bases. This work has been mainly under the direction of Coach Frantz and Clarkson. The battery squads have practiced every afternoon, the pitchers giving particular attention to control, and in the latter part of the time, to curves. Improvement has been steady and satisfactory, the work of the first squad being especially good, with the exception of a few men who have been irregular in attendance on account of illness. The second squad was disbanded yesterday...
...invention of the guillotine, which in some analogous form had already been used in Germany and in Scotland, happened to coincide with the outbreak of the Revolution, and was not a consequence of that movement. But it was certainly singular that the invention should have taken place at that particular time, since it enabled executions to be conducted with a rapidity and a certainty which would have been impossible with the means formerly at the disposal...