Word: pick
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Shorey showed how the Attic comedies of Aristophanes were happy thoughts suddenly conceived, and it is generally possible to pick out the line which shows the writer's inspiration. Emphasis should be placed on the resemblances and not the differences between that age and the present. That period had the same questions of courts, of vital social conditions, and to a large extent it had the same customs...
...University squad was divided into three teams, two of which played a short game under the supervision of Coach Burgess, while the third played against the Freshmen. Although the University team has lost several men of last year's team through graduation, the material seems good from which to pick men to fill the places left vacant...
...whole, the University team promises to be fairly well-balanced, weak in the sprints, unusually good in the distance events, fair in the field events, and very well represented in the hurdles. Barring injuries the team should stand a good chance against Yale and should pick up a number of points in the intercollegiate meet. The greatest difficulty will be in developing sprinters, broad-jumpers, and pole-vaulters, but if the coaches can find good men for these events, Harvard should be very well represented on the track next spring
...Copeland '13, W. H. Lacey '12, and W. M. Tugman '14 are runners who have made a good showing in cross country work, and, with Captain P. R. Withington '12, who will try this event for the first time, should prove to the be good material from which to pick the 780-yard team...
...centre, we firmly believe would have given both of these men a hard fight for the final choice. Ketcham is fast down the field but is not up to what we saw of Huntington on the de- fence. Bluethenthal did excellent work against Harvard. In default of Huntington, we pick Bluethenthal for the centre position...