Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...When the scholarships were resumed after the war it was decided to give to the men in this country who know most about Oxford the honor of selecting the Rhodes scholars. College presidents have still been retained as chairmen of these committees, as is instanced by the appointment of President Lowell as chairman of the Massachusetts committee. The secretary of this committee is Assistant Professor R. K. Hack of the University, who will give out all information concerning the scholarships to men living within the state...
...University Gun Club will hold shoots today, tomorrow and Thursday in preparations for its first match, which is to take place with Dartmouth, on November 14. Although the Club is still behind its fall schedule on account of its late start, new men may still come out without being handicapped, and inexperienced men will be given an equal opportunity to practice at the traps with the others. It is expected that a set of new automatic traps will be installed next week...
Much handicapped by the number of men who have been badly injured lately, Coach Withington '09 of the Freshman eleven faces a difficult problem in preparing a team to meet the Princeton yearlings next Saturday. It is still too early to say how long most of these men will be out, but it is doubtful if any of them will be allowed to play against Princeton...
...Coach Farrell, in speaking of the race, said that the team had showed great improvement since last Saturday, and if they made a corresponding gain in the coming race they would give Yale a close struggle for the honors next Saturday at New Haven. The team, he explained, has still a tendency to run too hard in the first of the race, not conserving their strength for the final mile...
...some reason the importance of college games still depends largely upon their possibilities of physical injury rather than their potentialities of skill, and the spectators as well as the governing bodies hesitate to recognize any form of sport in which a player is not likely to be seriously hurt. Men who have played both university football and first-class tennis admit that a five-set tournament match may be a more grueling affair than the most desperate of gridiron battles, but with broken bones, cuts and bruises eliminated, there are usually no external evidences of the punishment. Unfortunately, however...