Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spring is a critical situation at co-educational colleges and universities. The Daily Nebraskan bewails the increasing tide of college engagements; they are not permanent, says this journal, and they are not conductive to good scholastic work...
...that Frank Shaughnessy, Canadian Rugby coach who is instructing Crimson football candidates in the art of the lateral pass, would bring a McGill backfield well versed in the intricacies of lateral passing, down to Cambridge were spiked last night by a statement from Manager W. A. Magie '28. The Spring Recess at McGill does not begin until May 1, so the Canadians would not be able to leave the university until that date. Shaughnessy, however, takes his post as baseball scout for the Detroit Tigers on that date and will not be available...
...scrimmage was held yesterday afternoon and will be followed by another one next week. A full-time game all Friday will serve as a climax to the formal spring gridiron session. Yesterday's workout was shrouded in mystery, the lineup of two teams being the only facts divulged...
...opening clash last year. With the exception of left field, where W. W. Lord '28 takes the place of C. L. Todd '26, captain of last season's outfit, the Crimson aggregation will be identical with the one that defeated Yale and Princeton last spring...
Much has been said about the joys and felicities of spring, about the bursting buds, the gentle zephyrs the livelier iris on the burnished dove, etc, etc.--usually when March winds were still tossing hats gaily about the Yard. But no one can say more that these things are a delusion and a share, a trap for the unwary who essay forth coatless, trusting the tempered wind, for the baseball season has arrived. So this afternoon, the Vagabond will wander out toward Soldiers Field, admire in passing the blue of the river as it mirrors the fleecy clouds, and then...