Word: pick
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...grammar which he neither cares about nor remembers. It has been acknowledged that the best way to learn any language is to hear it spoken and we know for a certainty that children (who learn most rapidly, especially if they are young) do not reason at all but pick it up by instinct as it were or by learning its rythm or swing. This is the new system which has been lately introduced and is now being pursued,-that of learning a language by sound. It has been most successful in learning the modern languages of German, French, Italian...
...very fair speed. He is very weak on "pop" flies, and also at the bat. It will take a great deal of hard work to get him in proper condition to face Yale. Cowling will play first base ; he plays his position fairly well, but is weak on "pick-ups" and ground balls. He tends to play in a lazy way, and needs more snap. He is a hard, though not sure, hitter and runs well...
...should vary it, and try to insure greater accuracy. Woods plays an effective game close in goal, but should be a little more careful not to miss easy "swipes." Noyes dodges and runs well, and throws a hard line shot. His chief fault is "Monkeying with the ball" before picking it up. The fielders are playing rather a loose game and do not support each other enough. Roundy is effective in covering his man, but does not start quickly for the ball, and when he gets it, either runs too long, or throws it without looking to see whom...
...objects for which the club was founded, was the promoting of rifle practice by means of the interest excited by matches with teams from other colleges. The time has now come for action in this direction. There must be material among our students from which to pick an excellent team of four, six. or even eight men. We would suggest that the club should write to the various colleges, and, if possible, make arrangements for some team matches. Meanwhile, if some recognized authority, like the National Rifle Association, or the Forest and Stream, or Spirit of the Times, would lend...
There are eighteen men in training at present for the nine, and from this number the nine will be selected. Five of last year's nine are in college, but there is ample material from which to pick four good men. Hubbard and Jones are in college, but will be barred out this year as they have played on professional teams. Booth, Hopkins, McKee and Souther, '84, and Terry, '85, are the old men who played last year. Booth and Souther will probably form the regular "battery." and they are ably seconded by Odell and Bremner, the "battery" of last...