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...Captain Black, of course, is an aggressive player, and if his duties as the team's leader do not retard his speed, he should look out for one of the guard positions to the satisfaction of all Zenner, Galt, Vorys and Callahan do not rank as A-1 players and their substitutes cannot even be compared to them. Baldridge, last year's tackle is physically one of the best men on the squad, but he has a bad leg. When in shape he plays a hard, aggressive game...
...Commons take real pride in doing their work well and the system of fines is not essential to insure punctuality. The men who board at the Commons are satisfied and approve of the system. The employment of additional students offsets the greater efficiency of professional waiters, and does not retard the service or increase running expenses. The students doing the work report that they become better acquainted with their classmates than they could by any other means. Incidentally any throwing of food or disorder which formerly existed is now conspicuous by its absence...
...that with the rising excellence of "small college" football and with the reappearance of merely average material for Crimson teams, it will in future be advisable to confine all the preliminary and the first of the mid-season dates to contests which will build up the team and not retard it. Special preparations for "minor" games, made necessary by the fact that the "minor" teams have been working simply with the Harvard game in view, undoubtedly serve as stumbling blocks in the path of the eleven's progress, and another year will probably see a more natural arrangement...
...spits of the spells of bad weather and incidental accidents which inevitably retard the schedule of construction of a large building, the progress on the Widener Library has been very satisfactory to those in charge. The delays have, by this time, been made up for and it is hoped that the roof will be completed on the northern half of the building before the seriously cold weather sets in. On the southern half, because of the bookstacks which occupy practically this entire portion, it is doubtful whether progress can be made as rapidly...
...University association football team will play its first game in the intercollegiate series this afternoon, meeting Yale on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock. Although the poor condition of the ground will retard the play to a great extent, an interesting and hard-fought game is expected...