Word: pick
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...final trials to pick the team to debate against Yale 1912 will be held Monday evening. At that time these men will be divided into two teams for a practice debate. Each speaker will be allowed twelve minutes for presentation and five for rebuttal...
...result that a far greater activity has been recently shown in this work. During a certain period in 1906, 2000 men were arrested and 300 convicted; during the same space of time in 1908, 4300 men were arrested and 1600 convicted. The greater portion of these men were pick-pockets and burglars. Various methods of detective work are used to capture the criminals; some men in the force are expert "shadows," other devote themselves to watching pickpockets, still others do the deductive detective work...
...known as the song Committee to which is entrusted the selection of suitable football songs can do one of two things. It can select from the large array of songs submitted six or eight of the best and try them out hurriedly at the mass meetings, or it can pick out one or two songs from the compositions contributed which it feels tolerably certain will prove satisfactory, and turn them over to the mass meeting to be learned thoroughly. This year's Committee has adopted the latter course. The circumstances this year practically necessitated this action. It was the Committee...
...trials to pick the men for the cross-country team to run against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were held over the Chestnut Hill course Saturday afternoon. Except for H. Jacques, Jr., '11, who won with a good lead, the men came in well together. The order in which the first twelve finished follows: H. Jacques, Jr., '11, M. H. Whitney '09, R. E. Dole '10, P. C. Heald '11, E. Parson '11, H. Y. Masten '10, G. Murphy '10, C. D. Burrage '11, C. P. Howard '09, G. E. Graves '11, W. P. Rogers '11 and J. H. Noble...
Dabney and Gardner played a fine game at the net throughout. In the first part of the match the former was a trifle weak on his serve, and was inconsistent in volleying lobs. Dabney was excellent on short pick-ups, however, and slightly excelled his partner in everything but serving. Both men preferred to receive serves on the fall of the ball, while Niles and Dana generally took them on the top of the bound. Niles's fore-hand Lawford was not so effective as in previous contests. Several times he worked a trick serve with success, which caught...