Word: storming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Roosevelt's name uttered by E. A. Cottrell, instructor in government, before 300 Harvard classmen, evoked a storm of hisses, stamping and cheers combined, that increased with Mr. Cottrell's efforts to check...
...Navy training table. Practice was held on the Navy track Thursday afternoon, but unfavorable weather again made anything but light work impossible. The men were given a rest on Friday, as a dual track meet with Annapolis was scheduled for Saturday. However, owing to a severe wind and rain storm, the meet was declared off after the first event, the 100-yard dash. In this event, P. G. M. Austin '13 and K. S. Billings '12 were entered for Harvard, Austin winning third place, and Wild and Carey, of the Navy, finishing in first and second places respectively. The time...
...University were getting any healthy exercise and good out of it. A small band of picked athletes are being trained and exercised, some think too much, but nevertheless it is exercise and fresh air, while the University at large sits back and "dopes" it out. And yet the fearful storm of controversy over the game and the feverish excitement before the big battles--and only thirty men out of a possible 2,000 are deriving any out benefit--it is to laugh...
...shells presented to the University boat club by W. C. Baylies '84 and S. Shillito '79 were injured in shipment form England on the steamship Georgian. During a storm one of the life boats broke loose and fell upon the box containing the shells, breaking off four feet of the stern of the eight-oar and crushing the bow of the four-oar. It cannot be ascertained whether there is any further damage until an examination is made by the insurance officers...
Candidates for the team who successfully weathered the storm and stress of mid-years are very apt to overlook the April pitfall and consider themselves immune from danger. It is always regrettable to lose good material because of scholastic difficulties. This year, however, it would be doubly so. For with the right sort of co-operation and assistance from the squad and the support of the College at large, Dr. Sexton should have a very good chance to develop a winning team. Any men who through indolence or carelessness handicap Dr. Sexton in his initial efforts as coach deserve...