Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spring work are obvious enough. New men gain the attention of the coach and the captain; old men keep themselves in condition. The spring practice has one function of special importance,--that of introducing this year's Freshman team to the University squad. These men should make a particular point of reporting. A meeting of all the candidates for the team will be held in the Varsity Club and the work of the spring training will be outlined. Those who intend to go out for the team should make a point of attending, and starting with the squad...
...digested, and served up in most tempting style for the inert undergraduate. The men of both teams have been spending busy weeks preparing their arguments. They have sifted their facts thoroughly, eliminated the chaff, and dressed them up in the best possible garb. No speaker will make a point of showing the seamy side of his case; but hostile critics will come before and after; and the truths which escape unscathed will have a strong claim to validity. The difference between hearing a carefully prepared debate on a question and hearing a propagandist lecture on it is that the speaker...
Later in the season an interdormitory tournament open to all Freshmen except members of the 1918 squad will be held on the Soldiers Field courts under the supervision of the Freshman manager candidates. There will be no dormitory teams but each match won will count one point in favor of the dormitory represented. The winner and runner-up will be taken on the Freshman squad...
...University led Yale by one point at the end of the afternoon session but in the evening Harvard took all three bouts from Yale, and the entire nine from Bowdoin. Putnam went through the meet without being defeated...
...recent efforts to secure an improvement in the administration of the oral examinations. This year, through the committee mentioned, a persistent and intelligent campaign has been carried on. The Student Council has not only been careful and specific in its recommendations, but has approached the subject from the point of view of the scholarly student, not merely from that of the disappointed athlete...