Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Second half-hour--Yale kicks off. Harvard runs back, but Yale now shows greater familiarity with the game and tackles strongly. The runner is stopped and the whole Yale team piles on him. When they are taken off the ball is found a flattened sheet of rubber at the bottom. It is blown up again and the game proceeds. Blanchard gets the ball and runs in for a touchdown. The goal is missed...
...Freshmen took a four-mile walk, while the University rowers went for a short cruise in G. L. Batchelder's auxillary yawl, the "Dorello." Most of the time that has not been taken up with actual rowing, has been spent in quarters on account of the cold and rain. Rubber boots have been issued and are worn by the men outside...
...French G. P. F. 155 mm. rifle corresponds to our 6-inch naval gun, and is mounted on a carriage with solid rubber tired wheels. Guns of this type were used in war by the U. S. Corps and Army Artiller, the personnel of which was composed for the most part of coast Artiller men. However, a number of the G. P. F.'s were handled by field artillery regiments and in the future, this calibre gun will be entirely taken over by that breach of the service; as its use falls under their work. This gun is considered...
...general, all its affairs; but in the selection of courses and the direction of the matters of instruction, and in the internal management, the Corporation concerns itself but little. It acts upon the recommendation of the Faculty and the Overseers, and in many cases, merely serves as the "official rubber stamp." The Corporation is primarily a business organization, charged with attending to the financial interests of the University...
...morning, and an address and discussion beginning at 10 o'clock. The topic of the discussion, "A Program of Education for Massachusetts" will be presented by Dr. Payson Smith, commissioner of Education for Massachusetts and will be discussed by President Lowell, Mr. Frederick C. Hood '86, of the Hood Rubber Company, Mr. Arthur C. Boyden, principal of the State Normal School at Bridgewater, and Mr. Frank V. Thompson '07, superintendent of schools, of Boston...