Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...game for the rest of the season with a broken cheek bone. A slight operation was necessary to reset the bone. Leslie's knee will not permit his playing for some time. Therefore it will be necessary to make several shifts or substitutions in the forward line to strengthen it for the game with Dartmouth on Saturday. The permanent absence of Captain Hornblower will greatly weaken the attack, as he was the best of the forwards at advancing the puck...
...Freshman hockey team will play its fourth practice game, against the Brae Burn Country Club team, at the Brae Burn rink, West Newton, this evening at 8.30 o'clock. The Freshmen have improved rapidly for so early in the season. The return of Sortwell will strengthen the offence considerably and a good game should result. The line-ups will be as follows: 1914. BRAM BURN. Adams, Stevenson, l.e. r.e., Fels, Heron Sortwell, l.c. r.c., MacKay Devereux, Morgan, r.c. l.c., Hickey Woods, r.e. l.e., Kelly Wingate, Williams, c.p. c.p., Mason Willetts, p. p., Wilder Carnochan, Converse, g. g., Wray
...stroke, Newton replacing Lincoln at 4. Although the boat was rather unsteady on its keel, the University eight rowed fairly well together and showed good blade work for the first day out in a new order. The probable return of L. Withington '11 in the spring should greatly strengthen the eight and make the prospects for a fast eight better than ever...
...extraordinary rise of new colleges and universities throughout the west, many of them enjoying state support, has naturally prevented any large increase of patronage from that section in the older eastern institutions. If Harvard as a whole is to strengthen her hold on all parts of the country, and to draw more students from foreign lands, she must keep a little ahead of her competitors. For the existence of a friendly competition among the "societies of scholars" is not to be deplored and to be at the head is an honor not to be despised...