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...candidates for the university baseball team were again reduced yesterday, and the squad now numbers seventeen men, fourteen of whom will be selected to go on the Easter trip. For the past few days the candidates have been practicing at the Field, but on account of the muddy condition of the diamond only outfield practice was possible. In consequence of this the nine will be very poorly prepared for the southern trip, and will not be expected to win many games from the teams who have had the advantage of longer outdoor practice. The first game will be played with...
...next set of maps accepts a boundary starting at Cape Nassau. These were probably constructed on the theory that, although the Essequibo was the real boundary, geographers must represent facts as they exist. There are seventeen maps of this kind, many of them by men of established reputation...
...volume also contains seventeen excellent photogravure views of Cambridge and the surrounding country...
...bases and follow this up with a short run to the Gymnasium where they go through a system of dumbbell work. As yet, no regular batting practice has been done, but a few of the men are practicing in the cage one or two mornings every week. At present seventeen men are trying for the position of battery on the nine, seven of this number being catchers and ton pitchers. Of the new candidates for pitcher the man with the best reputation as an all-round ball player is undoubtedly Haughton '99, who last year pitched for Groton, but formerly...
...does not help the man who intends to enter a profession to begin his college course at the age of seventeen, for it has frequently been proved that the man who begins to practice his profession at twenty-three gains no advantage over the man who begins active work at twenty-six. The world shuns the very young practitioner, and turns to the older man, even though he has no greater experience or skill. The young man does not find the positions open to him today that the young man of twenty years ago did. The places are now being...