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Word: picks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first time and contributed a total of fifteen points to Harvard's score. Five of these men are all men who in the past have seemed to be working against practical impossibilities, and even as late as their Junior year were showing what one would hardly pick as enough to make them valuable to the team. The sixth stuck at it in the face of numerous accidents. Hard work and faithfulness told, and they not only scored for us this ytar, but they came through with good performances in the face of hard competition. It is unnecessary to mention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perseverance Won Yale Meet. | 5/22/1915 | See Source »

...great difficulty in carrying on the work of the sub committees successfully is that there has been very little continuity of effort from year to year. The new members each year find it difficult to pick up the thread where it has been left the year before. Accordingly the executive committee passed a rule this year that all sub committees must keep a book, containing the minutes of its meetings, and an account of all the work undertaken by it. This seems to me to be the keynote to the future development of the Council. Most of the important work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT COUNCIL'S WORK SHOWS AN IMPROVEMENT | 5/21/1915 | See Source »

...Amory's "Lady in Gray," a sprightly story of Cosmopolitan calibre, begins with a pick-up in a Pullman. It contains a mild satire on the modern best seller, and is easy and graceful...

Author: By R. E. Connell ., | Title: English 22 Book Deserves Success | 5/14/1915 | See Source »

...interdormitory tournament for Freshmen will also commence on Monday, and entries for this must be made on the bulletin boards in the dormitories by 6 o'clock tonight. The plan is to hold a separate tournament within each dormitory, and then to pick a four or six-man team from the results of each tournament, to compete in a triangular series. No members of the 1918 squad will be eligible for these tournaments. Members of the class who do not live in the dormitories, but who wish to play, will be assigned to Standish Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS ENTRIES CLOSE TONIGHT | 5/1/1915 | See Source »

...pitchers for today's game have not yet been decided upon, but it is likely that Stallings will pick one of his veterans, as James, Tyler, and Rudolph have not worked for some time, and Coach Sexton has announced that the man to start in the box for the University will be picked from three men, Frye, Willcox, and Mahan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONTEST AT FENWAY OPENS 1915 SEASON | 4/12/1915 | See Source »

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