Word: takings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Retrospection of the instruction given to members of the two military courses at the University this year presents two outstanding points. The observer at once perceives that the instructors are divided into two groups: first, the officers detailed by the French and American Governments to take charge of the training; second, the professors and instructors of the University who have volunteered their services in conducting the classes. Some of the latter we have seen appear with their beautifully shined puttees wrong end to. Others have walked the streets with eight inches of shoe-string dragging behind. Still others have come...
Four members of the University track team left for Philadelphia yesterday morning to compete in the annual I. C. A. A. A. A. Track and Field Championships held at the University of Pennsylvania today and tomorrow. The men will take part in the meet in order that the University may be represented in this annual event, in which it has always had a team entered in past years. After the poor showing against Yale and Princeton last Saturday, it is not expected that the quartet of track men will star in the intercollegiates, and the trip is made more...
...most opportune that this day should come at a time when our outlook is the darkest it has been since we entered the war. But it is on the darkest night that the stars shine brightest, and so these honored dead must take on a new brilliancy for us today...
...runner handing on the torch to the next, never letting the flame die out, is ever true," he declared, "and let us remember that the fewer the number remaining, the higher will mount the flame. I can see you young men reaching out with eager hands to take the torch...
...final practice rows of the year will take place this morning and afternoon, as on Saturday, only a short run will be given the men before the race...