Word: springing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...decision of Eastern universities to resume intercollegiate baseball games this spring and the almost simultaneous announcement that the leading tennis tournaments will be revived during the approaching season are welcome. The seriousness of our entrance into the world war was nowhere more deeply appreciated than in collegiate and amateur athletics. The leading men on the gridiron and the diamond disappeared from their wonted places to take up the grimmer game for the sake of country. Nine of the ten ranking tennis players of 1916 are enlisted in the service of the nation, and the tenth is indispensably engaged...
Hibbard was the leading candidate in the competition for manager of the Freshman baseball team last spring, when the season had to be given up on account of the entrance of the United States into the war. He also managed the baseball games played by the informal University team last fall...
...William Zebina Ripley, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at the University, has been appointed lecturer in economics for the spring session at Columbia University. He will conduct the course in "Corporations and Trusts," which has been left without an instructor by Professor Saeger, who is absent on war leave. The course will only meet on Mondays and Professor Ripley will still conduct his course at the University, which meets on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays...
With regard to the future of track and field sports at the University this spring it was decided that the team should send several men to the annual meeting of the I. C. A. A. A. A., which is scheduled to take place this year in Philadelphia on May 31 and June 1. Moreover, the athletic authorities are in favor of a triangular track meet with Yale and Princeton, to be held preferably on May 18 at New Haven. This will be an event of special interest in intercollegiate athletics, since it will be the first track and field meet...
...further action was taken as regards crew work during the spring, but it is understood that races will be held with both Yale and Princeton; the former late in May or in early June, the latter early...