Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixteen hits lined out against Wesleyan last Tuesday offset the weaker stick-work in the New Hampshire and Brown games, and wiped out the one point margin that last week separated the Crimson nine from the select group of .300 hitters. From .299 the aggregate has been raised to precisely the .300 berth. At this time last season the team batting mark was set at a lowly...
From those who try-out in the various universities throughout the country, Mr. McCormich will select the most promising, furnish them with transportation to and from California, and give them an eight week trial in productions starring Colleen Moore, Richard Barthelmess, Milton Sills, Bilie Dove, Ken Maynard and others...
...thought Idaho too far west. This limits his field. He is not going to pitch a tent in the middle of an Iowa cornfield; nor is he likely to choose a Rocky Mountain playground, away from the angry farmers' area.* Current political strategy hints that the President will select the Black Hills of South Dakota or some convenient fishing spot in Wisconsin. To him will be called dirt farmers, farm organizers, midwestern Senators and Representatives. The President will tell them how anxious he is to solve the farm problem, will ask their suggestions. Meanwhile, a compromise farm bill will...
...extend the advantages of a liberal university to many classes, and not only to select young bloods such as needy Poet Poe found and tried to live up to at Virginia, that President Alderman strove from the first for a bigger university. Now his appeal to the intelligent farming class, of which Virginia like the whole country has great need, will be fortified...
...nature that it would have been difficult to pick any eight men who were outstanding. Even the squad which has just been chosen is by no means permanent and it is probable that there will be some reseating between now and spring vacation, when Coach Haines expects to select the eight men who will be kept practically intact as a crew throughout the remainder of the season...