Word: putting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Bothne, Yale M. S., who played on the Williams eleven last year, won the last gymnasium contest in shot putting by a put...
...pitchers as a rule are too light and lack speed. The catchers are good backstops, but as far as the work in the cage shows are poor throwers. The men as a whole lack snap and put very little heart into their work. They do not go in as if they realized that two important games with Yale and perhaps one with Princeton are to be played which can be won only by faithful and hard work. There is a tendency to shirk the sliding and running especially. About 18 men will be kept practising during the Easter vacation...
Tickets for all the H. A. A. meetings have been put on sale at Leavitt & Peirce...
...also; two of the three elected were from other colleges. From this little circumstance no very startling generalities should be drawn, but it does show that in the last two years in the Law School merit in men from other colleges has been recognized and that "outsiders" have been put on the same level with Harvard men. The spirit shown is an admirable one, and goes far to disprove whatever ideas there may be floating around the world to the effect that Harvard is inordinately exclusive and that at Harvard only a Harvard man is worth any consideration...
...studying the results of the close air still cling to him, his brain does not work quickly, and he becomes drowsy. Everyone knows how much longer it takes to learn a lesson, if he is all the time on the verge of falling asleep, than if he could put all his energies into his work. Close air in a recitation room brings on this sleepiness; fresh air will do much to destroy...