Word: spent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman football squad, numbering about a hundred and fifty, began practice yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. The men were divided into eight squads, each in charge of a temporary captain, and twenty minutes were spent in dropping on the ball and passing. No other elementary work was given, and the practice ended with a run up Boylston street and the Parkway and back to the Locker Building. The coach-was done by J. L. Knox '98, assisted by C. O. Swain '00 and W. Nickerson...
...addition to these changes the Library has been enriched by a gift of one hundred dollars from Mr. James Loeb '88 of New York. This money was given with the provision that it be spent in collecting the publications of labor unions, newspapers issued in their interest or any other publications on the subject...
...preliminary work was considerably shorter than heretofore. The men were first lined up in three divisions, according to positions, and given practice in starting with the snap of the ball. Then four squads under Hallowell, Lawrence, Sawin and Gierasch practiced falling on the fall. The backs and ends then spent half an hour in receiving and getting down on kicks, while the line men were coached in breaking through and blocking. After this each of the four teams worked on the tackling dummy in turn, while the other three practiced signals. Only the simple plays were executed, particular attention being...
Three courses of practical work were carried on this summer, an elementary course in plane surveying and two advanced courses in railroad and geodetic surveying. The freshman course, covering the full seven weeks of the period in camp, was spent in running level lines, making chain, azimuth and compass surveys, laying out mining claims, taking soundings, and in plotting the country by the plane table, and transit and stadia methods. Besides the field work a day or two was set aside every week for computing and drawing maps...
...University nine will play the second game with Princeton this afternoon at Princeton. The team left Cambridge yesterday morning and spent last night in New York...