Word: progress
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been practicing dally on Soldiers Field under the direction of J. A. Sayler 3L. The work consists of passing the ball and shooting goals, and a game between two picked teams, special attention being paid to the development of swift team play. Since the squad has been outdoors the progress has been very rapid and the prospects for a strong team this spring are favorable...
...Freshman lacrosse squad of about 25 men has been practicing since March 6 under the direction of W. D. Hutchinson Sp., formerly of Oxford. The material is on the whole promising and fair progress has been made. Beginning today, when outdoor work will start D. P. Penhallow, captain of the University team in 1903, will assist in the coaching. The squad will be divided into teams as evenly matched as possible, which will play against each other until the class games begin. First and second teams will then be picked. Later, games will be played with the freshman teams...
Rehearsals of the Pi Eta musical comedy, "The Counterfeiter," are being held regularly and the progress made so far has been very satisfactory...
...progress of the University baseball squad during the past week has been on the whole unsatisfactory, the practice yesterday afternoon showing little or no improvement over the work of a week ago. The fielding squad was cut yesterday to sixteen men and four battery candidates were dropped. Another cut will be made in the battery squad next week...
...photographic plates. These measurements have proved conclusively that the light from these faint stars varies, a fact which heretofore had been unestablished. Before the telescope was completed it was not expected that such accurate work would be possible, and the discovery is of interest both because it shows the progress which has been made in the building of telescopes, and because it establishes the fact that light which cannot be seen through the ordinary telescope may be determined by photography...