Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ground on Soldiers Field is so wet that the lacrosse squad is still holding its daily practice on Holmes Field. There are now eighty-eight candidates for the team. More men are coming out daily and, in consequence, the work consists largely in training these inexperienced candidates to handle their sticks correctly...
...tried carefully to conceal the large part of his case. When you object that the plan is, as a brief, inadequate, that you see his little game, and that you have already seen it many times among his predecessors in your course, he looks a bit sheepish, but you still have to struggle with him week by week to make him give you a thorough presentation of the whole case, so that you may judge his work on its real merits. The graduate coaches complain of this as heartily as you or 1. The fact means simply that intense competition...
...candidates for the Freshman crew have now been rowing for two months and while it is still too early to judge of their ability, some general criticisms can be made of the Freshmen rowing at both clubs. Compared with the Freshman crews of the last two years, they seem rather backward in development. Individually the men are large and active, but as yet they do not work together...
...Weld the men have been provisionally graded into five crews and the two first crews are now rowing in shells. They are still troubled with the slides but keep their boats fairly steady. The five crews are rowing now in the following order...
...This is shown in a spirited center-piece, and discussed at length in "A Letter from Willie." Both of these show a fine appreciation of artistic detail and both bring out one or two incidents which actually happened. The drawing might have stuck a little closer to facts, and still lost none of its merit, but on the whole the scene is reproduced in a happy manner. The letter also brings in a number of good points, which will rouse many memories, pleasant or otherwise, of that eventful night...