Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading hurlers for the University have played errorless ball to date. Barbee, 11 assists and one put out with out a bobble, which is a high record for a moundsman. Booth is close behind with four put outs and a like number of assists for a 1000 average. Chauncey is leading his rival for the back stop, DeRham, by a heavy margin. The big catcher has made only two errors, giving him a .954 standing against De Rham's .833 average. Both receivers have shown a weakness in converting high fouls toward the back stop into put outs...
...season to athletics; he also gave all the spring to it, and he did a certain amount of out-of-season practice as well. In addition, he was a class officer and generally a prominent member of the freshman class last year. At midyear he had a straight 'C' record. I called him in and said, 'Would you mind telling me something? How much work did it cost you to get a record such as you got?' He said...
...week.' That does not seem an excessive requirement for any freshman in college. This boy is the salt of the earth but not a brilliant student and I do not believe he ever worked more than four or five hours a week throughout the year, and yet his record was perfectly satisfactory. He did, however, keep himself in good condition...
...Just a word in regard to sending boys away from Harvard. Take the really good boy who simply does not know what a day's work consists of. After keeping him on for half-year with an unsatisfactory record, we often say to him and his family that he ought to be taken out and given a good, stiff job. That happens generally at midyears. Sometimes it does not happen until the end of the freshman year. If it happens at midyears, the man can start in again in the autumn if he has made a good record for himself...
Professor Macneil, a graduate of the University of California in the Class of 1908, received his degree from the Harvard Law School in 1911. His record while in the School was one of marked excellence. In his final year he was President of the Law Review, and led his class at graduation...