Word: set
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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About 100 men reported at the first call on February 14. The men were immediately divided off into 12 crews and set to work on the machines. The coaches had been able to get a pretty good line on the most promising oarsmen by what they had observed during the fall practice; nevertheless a strong bunch who had been unable to report for the autumn work on account of football or some other athletics put in their first appearance. These men had to be looked over carefully and as a result a regular order for the first boat...
...although he recognizes the strength of the Harvard yearlings, who have had a better record since they decisively beat the Cornell freshman eight. At the beginning of the season the coachers experienced much difficulty in weeding out the material for an eight which would keep up the standard set by Yale in the crews which have been sent to New London in former years. The crew was decided on about the middle of April as follows: Stroke, Soderston; 7, Mead; 6, Page; 5, Park; 4, Beebe; 3, Vail; 2, Ewing; bow, Wier; coxswain, Underwood. Since this selection very little shifting...
...sound and conservative playing gone through a schedule of 24 games with but three defeats and one tie. The World's Champions Red Sox, the Army and the Navy, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Tufts; these are of the more important teams which have been defeated. Of the set-backs, Catholic University has since been beaten by nines inferior to the Crimson, Brown merely broke even, and Boston College has been shown in a second game not to be of the calibre to be rated above Harvard; while Virginia's tie was later in the season more than offset...
...annual Spring southern trip, which brought forth the first set-back, began on Saturday, April 15, when Mahan defeated the Army's star pitcher, Neyland, by a score of 2 to 1. Charlottesville, Va., was the next stop on the itinerary, and here the University fought out a long 2 to 2 tie with Virginia. The Navy went down to a 4 to 3 defeat with Whitney twirling, but the game was won for Harvard at the expense of losing Wyche, who tore a ligament in his ankle and has been unavailable since. Mahan met a tartar at Washington...
...rule that no student is admitted to a degree until he has returned to the Library all books which he has borrowed; or in default of this has replaced them, or has deposited with the librarian double their money value, or if the books belong to a set, double the money value of the complete set. Seniors should return all books today, as those returning them later will have to receive from the librarian a certificate of return, which must be shown to the Bursar...