Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that, "Very few men go out for the University team." Permit me to correct this statement,--at the beginning of the present season something over 30 presented themselves as candidates,--surely a fair number from which to select three...
...certainly undesirable to leave fencing on its present footing, for it is not right to have any University team handicapped to such an extent. If the Committee feels that there is enough interest to make intercollegiate matches worth while, the expenses of the team should be paid in whole or in part from the general fund. It is perhaps doubtful if this step would make the sport particularly popular, but it would at least be given a fair chance for success...
...members of the class might learn to know each other earlier in their College course. Although we are not particularly in favor of this artificial mode of making acquaintances, we realize with the writer the necessity of strengthening the unity of the various Freshman classes. As conditions are at present, it is not until the end of his Senior year that the average undergraduate really feels that he knows the men of his class, and anything which could bring this about in the Freshman year would be well worth adoption...
...first-year men in this way, but after all there is nothing particularly disgraceful or shameful in being a Freshman. If this custom were adopted, Freshmen would be materially aided in picking out their classmates, and before the end of the year would be more a unit than at present...
...Butler rowed on the four-oar against Yale, and since then he has rowed on his class crew. Martin was on his Freshman squad for the greater part of the season and last year he stroked the Sophomore crew. Jowett rowed on his Freshman four last spring and at present is rowing No. 7 in the Sophomore boat...