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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After a two weeks' rest the candidates for the Mott Haven team began their regular spring training on Holmes Field yesterday. As the weather is still chilly and the track is soft the men will do no speed work for a week or so. This is the earliest in the season that the team has ever been on the track. The 'Varsity and class games will not be held this year until after the spring vacation. A new rule has been made to the effect that the first three men in the events of the 'Varsity games will...
...Varsity baseball candidates were given their first out-door practice of the season yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. The time was spent in batting flies and grounders, although the ground was too soft for any accurate work. The practice will continue to be held out of doors as long as the favorable weather persists. It is probable that the new cage on Soldiers Field will be completed in the course of the next few days, so that it will be ready for use in case the squad be driven indoors unexpectedly...
Borne in the breath of the soft eveaway...
...very configuration of the landscape about them. Divided into communities by mountain ranges, they had a chance to develop along individual lines, to acquire a distinctive spirit of thought. The lines of the country are gentle and undulating, always suggesting what lies beyond. The coloring is of soft grays, pinks and violets, calling for the same restraint on the part of the artist as is shown by Nature herself. Everywhere one sees a combination of great variety with the utmost delicacy and refinement,- an effect which no sensitive imagination could resist...
...editorial of the current number of the Advocate sets a criterion for contributions which it is sincerely to be hoped will be held to in future. The writer classes a large proportion of his contributions as "Soft Melancholy, Dull Despairing and Dramatically Tragic." He might have added Weirdly Foolish and Sentimentally Tiresome. Unfortunately many past stories of the Advocate have been one or all of these...