Word: placing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first half the playing of the University team was perhaps a little better than that of Technology, though in addition to slowness and lack of team play it was characterized by poor passing. In the second half Briggs was put in at right centre in place of Morgan. The individual work of Gardner and Hicks showed improvement, but the team play was of the same inferior quality. The goal was made accidentally by Paine on an attempted pass in the midst of a scrimmage close to the Technology goal at the end of the half...
...America and went to take charge of a newly constructed railroad at Burlington. Coming east again he took charge of some iron mills in Maryland, where he remained till he enlisted. As captain in the sixth Massachusetts cavalry he was ordered to Virginia, where he was given a place in General McClellan's staff. After the battle of Antietam, Colonel Lowell received the honor of carrying the captured flags to Washington. While fighting with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, he was wounded in the chest. Despite this wound he charged a village held by sharp-shooters at the head...
...Chicago on the morning of February 15 and leave that evening for Nashville, where he will be the guest of Chancellor Kirkland of Vanderbilt University. He will spend the night of February 18 at Memphis, to break the journey from Nashville to Dallas, and will reach the latter place February...
...March 23 he will leave Asheville for Greensboro, where that night will be spent. On the morning of the next day he will be at Guilford College, and will go from there to Durham that afternoon. While at Durham he will visit Trinity College at that place, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill not far away. On March 27 he will journey to Richmond, where he will remain over the twenty-ninth. The next day he will be in Washington, where he will attend the dinner of the Harvard Club of Washington. The following evening, at Baltimore...
...interests of Boston and to Harvard. The first great gift that he gave to the University was a vast tract of land, which he wished to be named Soldiers Field in honor of those who had died for the Union during the Civil War. It was to be a place where all Harvard men could enjoy outdoor sports. In the autumn of 1899 he gave $150,000 to build a clubhouse which should "bear no name forever except that of our University." Plans for the building were drawn up by McKim, Mead and White, of New York...