Word: swing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Preliminary work for the University and Freshman track teams is now in full swing at Soldiers Field, although the work is voluntary until the vacation. The board track is now set up and ready for the use of the sprinters and distance men. Handicap competitions are held in the cage every week in one or more of the field events, the weekly scores of contestants being counted in the final average...
...verse, Mr. Clark's "To a Cello" has most distinction. The feeling is sincere, and the skilfully chosen words sensitively echo the feeling. "Wrangler of the X Bar U," by Mr. R. M. Jopling, has a good swing and vigorous lines. Mr. Sanger's "The Vision of His Work" is an interesting example of the tendency to seek poetic subjects in the sights and sounds of a great city. Occasionally the choice of words might be happier, as in the line "The whistles of the harbor craft ring out." Infelicities are rare, however, and there are often very good lines...
With College sports in full swing, one might suppose that the athletic sphere of the student was full. Nevertheless, the University is apparently making a whole-hearted contribution to the "dopesters" of the World Series. Everybody has seized upon the seductive topic of the day, and the rank and file have massed themselves with the sophisticated veterans of baseball, all bent on solving a question of fine deliberation...
...spend a profitable and enjoyable evening. There seems to be a sort of intangible spirit of enthusiasm breaking out in the College this fall,--the crowd at the football game Saturday showed it,--and tonight every man in 1917 should feel it his duty to get into the swing of it. Therefore, we advise Freshmen to take the bait offered them and make use of this opportunity to imbibe a liberal amount of the College spirit which we must have this year to help our men live up to the marks set for them last...
...Gales Ferry for the past two weeks under the instruction of Coaches Gold and Kirby. The crews this year are again using the English shells having the seats away from the centre of the boat, and with their English form of rowing got a long reach and body swing. It is this feature which marks the chief difference between the Harvard and Yale styles of rowing, the University stroke being much shorter in the water...