Word: slating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman tennis team will endeavor to keep its slate clean and add another victory to its total of five straight wins when it meets the Yale Freshmen on the New Haven courts at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The Crimson yearlings have been unfortunate this spring in having to cancel many of their matches due to rain, and what contests they have played have resulted in one-sided victories. Consequently they go to New Haven almost untested with the result that while their record is more brilliant, they have not had as good a preparation for a hard match...
...materials which will be used in the construction of the building are a white local stone with a creamy tint and red brick. The roof will be of blue slate with copper flashings and it will have three rows of small dormers, giving a pleasing national touch. The belfry tower, which will contain special chimes and the front portal will have many gilded details characteristic of Brabant...
Exeter has a clean slate to date, having defeated Huntington High, Tilton Seminary, and the M. I. T. Sophomores in easy order. Clement, playing his first season on the Red and Gray nine, won the Huntington contest through phenomenal twirling, allowing neither a run nor a hit and striking...
Although the school boys have but few veterans, they have a clean slate so far this season, having defeated Roxbury Latin 11-3, Middlesex 4-3, Browne and Nichols 15-5, and Technology Freshmen...
...Walker and Bencoe, captains of the Harvard, Yale, and Columbia foilsmen respectively, though expected to be Becker's chief opponents, failed to place. The captains of all the teams met on the first night and succeeded in eliminating each other effectively. None was strong enough to maintain a clean slate over the others and as a result each was credited with six or more defeats. E. L. Lane, by a plucky exhibition, fought his way to a tie for third place with Captain Hertzberg of Dartmouth. E. H. Lane, substituting for Brewster, started at a disadvantage, but managed to hold...