Word: success
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...importance to a team's success of a good squad of substitutes is shown very clearly in the case of the small college. Frequently a small college can get together eleven good football players, nine good baseball players, seven good hockey players, and as long as these first teams play against the first teams of larger colleges they often meet with success. The reason so many small colleges have good baseball teams is because in baseball substitutes are seldom needed...
...stage productions after long runs, like most old maids, need rejuvenation. Their bill-boarded success of so many months deserves our attention only when their managers realize that nothing can stand still; a play must go either forward or backward. So "The Blue Paradise" comes to Ye Wilbur Theatre crowing over its Broadway success, which was undoubtedly merited-one could see that from the number of missed opportunities-but evidently no renovating has taken place since the initial performance...
There are only about 30 candidates who report regularly for Freshman winter track, and more should come out to insure its success, and particularly the success of the Worcester meet. The events in which the squad is weakest are the 1,000-yard and 600-yard runs, and the hurdles. The team has a good high jumper in J. Buffington '20 and the members of the relay team, after their defeat of the Yale freshmen last Saturday, seem assured of their places. In all the other events, however, there is need of more candidates...
About 15 or 20 men have been reporting daily for crew practice on the machines, and the voluntary rowing during the examination period, which was instituted for the first time this year, has met with success. A registering device has been fixed on two of the machines which shows a light at the catch and the finish of each stroke so that Coach Haines may better be able to watch the timing of the strokes. It is planned to put them on every machine as soon as possible if they prove as useful as it is hoped...
This number of the Monthly, whatever its defects, aims high and achieves no small measure of success...