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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lacrosse Club on Soldiers' Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. This will be the first game of the season, and will give a good opportunity for the coaches to find out the weakness of the team. Practice has been going on for over two weeks, and despite the poor weather conditions and injuries, marked progress has been made...
...McCormack's Tobin lacks so good an excuse for taciturnity. He is kept in-articulate on principle. Poor Tobin could not have adequately shown his feelings in real life; and, Mr. McCormack apparently argues, we ought therefore not to expect to find them described in a work of literature. This is realism of a sort, but a very poor sort. It is certainly not the realism of Mr. Thomas Hardy, who would be as deeply buried in oblivion as Robert Bloomfield if his characters were as inexpressive as Tobin. It is the realism of the camera and the phonograph...
...team has had in the intercollegiate series and the second contest for Cornell, the latter having lost to Haverford, 2 to 0. The playing of the University team so far this season has been quite satisfactory. On March 22, Newton Upper Falls was defeated 1 to 0 under very poor playing conditions and on March 28 the team defeated the Clinton Club in an encouraging game by the score...
Work has been started on the Jarvis Field tennis courts and, weather permitting, they will be open for play on Monday, April 6. Owing to the poor drainage, the courts on Soldiers Field probably will not be ready for some time...
Owing to the poor condition of the regular track, practice will be for the present held outside underneath the Stadium. Men have been at work during the past week forming a temporary track under the Stadium and preparing places for the broad-jumpers, high-jumpers, and pole-vaulters...