Word: though
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...practice yesterday, though somewhat hindered by the rain, was rather encorging. The men were wide awake and put plenty of life into their playing, particularly Chandler, who has improved greatly and appeared yesterday to be the best man in the infield. The errors made were probably due to the wet ball. The batting was good; the hits were few and hard. Dean received an injury to his ankle in the game with Virginia and did not engage in the practice yesterday except to bat, McVey taking his place at second. He will play in the Princeton game tomorrow, however...
...that of representing their class against the freshman class of a rival university, or against its nearest rival class here, yet the members of the 1900 Freshman Debating Club have worked hard and have accomplished much. Their representatives tonight deserve the support of the whole class as much as though they were to debate against the class of '99 or against the Yale freshmen...
...game between the Push Balls and the No Names was exciting throughout. Up to the seventh inning it looked as though the Push Balls would win, but in the last inning the No Names batted out four runs and won the game. The score by innings...
...seems a pity that the Advocate should devote so much of its space to stories of this nature. In the first place a little more care might be used to discriminate correctly between what is tragic, and what is merely gory. Again, though many of these tales are written with genuine vigor and dash, they should not be allowed to take precedence of the large field of light literature, dealing with more delicate and more polished themes. This field the Advocate seldom penetrates, and it might be cultivated with profit both to writers and to readers...
...remembered that the scrub games were this year given greater prominence than ever before, largely in order to develop men for their class teams, which are, or should be, of more importance. It takes so long to play off the scrub games that it looks at present as though the class games would be made no more of than last year...