Word: soft
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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More than 90 track candidates reported to Coach Donovan at the first spring practice held on the track. From 25 to 30 field event men reported to Coach Clark. Although the track is still rather soft, this must be expected early in the season...
...Princeton varsity practiced outdoors for the first time last Monday. The regular diamond was too soft for use, but a temporary one was laid out in the outfield. Link, Chaplin, and Thompson appeared to be the most likely first-string men on the pitching staff, and Claire, Dowd, and Rutherford, promising substitutes. Douglas showed best behind the bat, while Purves, Gordon, and Currie proved such able seconds, that it is considered possible that Driggs may be used at short or in the outfield instead of at backstop...
...whole falls below the dramatic level of the 'Eldest Son.'" There is a conventionally humorous consideration of that time-honored subject, "Cambridge Weather." There is a conventional undergraduate story, "The Flame," the heroine of which is like "the changing pastel tones" of the "warm amber of a Virginia sunset"--"soft, delicate, and passionless." And there is the usual amount of conventionally correct verse, with one piece, "Escaped," by Mr. W. A. Norris, that is more individual and distinguished than the rest. Even Mr. Cowley's vers libre is conventional according to the standards of "Spoon River...
...chances to score by not getting their shots off with any degree of speed or accuracy. This fault, however, as well as a slight let-up in speed and all-around playing, has been due in large measure to the warm weather, which has not only made the ice soft and sticky, but has taken much life out of the air in the Arena: Cold, snappy weather would undoubtedly help a great deal in bringing the team to the high form it reached in the Princeton series for the game with the McGill University tomorrow night...
...second team faced the University hockey seven in a 35-minute practice scrimmage at the Arena yesterday afternoon, which resulted in a victory for the University players by the score of 3 to 1. The warm weather made the ice somewhat soft and sticky, and this caused many falls...