Word: prone
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work of the team this year has been excellent. Against Amherst Agricultural College a new world's record was get of 978 out of a possible 1000, ten shots off hand and ten shots prone, on the 50-yard range...
...Southern-bred people are prone to pat themselves on the back for the genuine hospitality that they show to strangers and to slyly imply that Northern people are not guilty of showing this same hospitality. There can be no more certain proof of genuine hospitality than that shown to the Commodores by the Harvard student body and faculty on their recent visit to the Crimson stronghold. It is true that a great part of these favors was shown by Southern men, yet the entire university population was eager to make the stay of the Vanderbilt warriors a pleasant...
...score made by the University rifle team in a competition with Louisiana State University was 927 out of a possible 1000 shots. This score was made at the Federal rifle range, in Boston, last Wednesday and Thursday evenings, each man shooting one target standing and one target prone...
...winner is to be chosen is most commendable, and has received the approval of Coach Sexton. Such a display of interest on the part of a recent graduate may well be taken to heart by men now in College. After leaving Cambridge, most of us will be all too prone to forget interests which would benefit greatly by an occasional act of just this sort...
...best tackles of 1910. He maintained this reputation until he received an injury a month ago from which he does not seem to have fully recovered. His work in the Princeton game, however, was of a high order. Paul at right tackle is a good player but prone to injuries which have materially lessened his effectiveness this fall and will probably mean the early substitution of Gallauer who played on the freshman team last fall and who began the season this fall as an end and was moved over to tackle when the veterans were both laid up with injuries...