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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fourth. Gannett made a remarkably fast play on Nichols's clean drive over first in the sixth inning. Coming in at full speed, he scooped the ball on the run and threw to Nash just in time to beat Nichols, and in doing so he completed a play seldom seen on any ball field. Milholland was unusually busy all afternoon, accepting five chances without a slip. As for the infield, it played its usual top-notch game, the Frye to Wingate to Nash combination stopping a rally in the fourth...
...Senator Hollis has not spoken in a way calculated to make us accept even his good ideas as such. We seldom give much credence to a man who inveighs against any institution with a radicalism so unbalanced by a Knowledge of the facts. The sensational type of the article on colleges has often enough been commented on in this column and elsewhere. That a graduate of the college such as senator Hollis should take so little Pains in investigating or considering the truth of many of the popular illusions in regard to it, before placing it in so unfavorable...
...English A, no course is open. Why not permit them to turn to English 22 or 31, as in the old days when one hundred and forty was an average enrollment from the second-year class? A composition course is not inevitably easy; other courses seldom pay sufficient attention to the manner of expression to take the place of one; and for the development of tentative geniuses, there would still be the limited classes, English 12 and 5. The University in the appointment of Mr. Castle to investigate undergraduate English, has proved its interest in the movement for a higher...
...most conspicuous trait of undergraduate publications is likely to be youth. Now we may all, like the middle-aged teller of Mr. Conrad's glorious story of "Youth," wish the enthusiasms of that rosy age back again; but we are aware that in artistic performance, extreme youth is seldom capable of the highest achievement. For such weaknesses as appear in the present Advocate, youth is chiefly responsible...
...spring, the number of men has been increased and the service made much superior to its former standard. These men guard especially against the suspicious stranger who enters the Yard with something to sell and proposes to enter the dormitories under one pretext or another, and it is very seldom that the outsider of doubtful mission escapes the surveillance of the patrol. There are, however, thefts carried on in one manner or another, and in order to guard against vagrant trespassers, it is urged that the undergraduates co-operate with the officers and report any missing articles, and give knowledge...