Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman baseball team went on to score nine tallies in the last three innings and triumph over Exeter 11-5. Lupe Lupien continued his punch at bat three hits out of five times at bat, including a long home run in the seventh inning with a mate on base. Slim Curtiss in gaining his fourth win of the season allowed nine hits, but he was able to tighten in the pinches and prevent the visitors from scoring after the fifth inning...
Tomorrow at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field, the Freshman team will engage Exeter Academy in a game which may give the Yearlings a severe test. Slim Curtiss will be the starting pitcher...
...examine over one hundred fifty men. This task in itself is overwhelming and naturally thankless, and its very enormity precludes any opportunity for personal attention, or the chance to spend either more or less time with certain students. With the outlook for an increased budget for next year extremely slim, the obvious solution is a return to the tried and tested system of hour examinations. These undoubtedly have their faults, but compared to the abject failure which the present system of "personal contact" has proven in History 2, almost anything would be infinitely preferable. Hours examinations should be inaugurated...
With Dick Grondahl back at shortstop after a week's layoff the team will be at full strength for the opener. Slim Curtiss, who beat Gilman and Mercersberg on the southern trip will be the Yearlings' starting pitcher...
...Captain January" is all about a small waif (guess who) cast up by the sea on a lighthouse rock, and two ancient mariners, one of whom keeps the light and unofficially adopts Miss Temple (Guy Kibbee), and the other of whom (Slim Summerville) attempts to alienate her affections by giving her a dancing crane, whom Miss Temple most winningly mistakes for an old acquaintance, thinking him a stork. It is really startling to notice how engrossed one becomes in the ways of the tenuous plot. For example, when Shirley is taking the examination that is to decide whether...