Word: picks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Coach James L. Knox '98 of the second team has decided not to have the training table for his squad start till a week from today, in order to give him more time to look over the material and pick the limited number of players who will eat at the Varsity Club. Coach Knox and Manager Falvey have both expressed the hope that the second squad will not drop off any more in numbers as 3 full squad of players will be necessary in order to play out the complete schedule which Manager Falvey is new arranging...
...schools will be taking their college entrance examinations. Three months afterward, there will be a new generation of scholars entering the universities. What will the next Harvard Freshman Class be like? Will it consist chiefly of a few school boys from Boston and neighborhood, or will it be the pick of the best schools throughout the country? The answer depends entirely upon our graduates and undergraduates...
...expects to enter about thirty men in the service meet at the East Armory in Boston on February 15. No formal team will be entered, however. Each man will run as an unattached individual. Under these conditions Freshmen as well as upperclassmen will be allowed to compete and there pick up a great deal of valuable experience...
...sights which one must witness over here, I think to see the poor, bent, old civilians coming back to their reconquered homes, coming back to pick about among the ruins, gathering up the remnants of their possessions and trying to bring some sort of order out of great chaos, to make some sort of a home out of great devastation, to find, some kind of living in a land destroyed,--working bravely, looking cheerfully at a scene which would cause the stoutest to falter, and then pitching in--that I think is one of the saddest sights...
Though in spring our fancy turns to the finer things in life, the Faculty insists that before revelling at Revere and similarly enjoying the beauties of Nature we pick up some selection of prose, peruse it for a moment and quickly decide whether the masterpiece is written in the guttural snarl of the Teuton or the musical rhythm of France. This done, the worst is over. If the work belongs to the French school translate firently, using love as the fundamental; if German, emphasize the wonders of the Fatherland, whistle the Lorelei and depart, thanking the instructor for listening...