Word: turned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...baseball practice yesterday afternoon was much the same as usual. Both nines took a turn first in field and then at the bat. Colonel Winslow is expected tomorrow to coach the nine. The next game scheduled is that with Dartmouth at Hanover on April 17, but another game will probably be arranged to be played in Cambridge before the vacation. Twelve men were yesterday measured for uniforms; these were Scannell, Highlands, Paine, Dean, Winslow, Garrison, Beale, Rand, Hayes, Stevenson, Buckman and Whittemore...
...library increases at an average rate of 10,000 volumes a year. Obviously with the present great accumulation of unstacked books, the new space will soon be consumed. When this comes about, the proposed plan is to turn the whole of what is now the reading room, as well as the empty space between the ceiling and the roof, into a stack. By this change 500,000 additional volumes in all could be put away. The library at present contains about 400,000 volumes, so it would have to more than double before it could fill up the extra space...
...entire 'varsity crew will row on the river today, for the first time. The men will go out in turn in a pair oar, the first two being Hollister and Stevenson, who will row at 2.30. The other pairs will be Shepard and Perkins, Manning and Jennings, and Fennessy and Lewis. Each couple will row about half an hour...
...slight change has been made in the rowing machines in the Carey Building. No. 2's machine on the second crew has been placed on a line between the two stroke weights. Yesterday all the port men on the first crew took a turn on this machine. It is thought that by allowing the man behind stroke to row for a time directly between the two stroke oars that he will more readily than otherwise imitate some of the perfections of their stroke. In this way it is of course hoped to give a greater unity to the stroke...
...English department has all but completed the plans for producing Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman" and it will probably be given at the Hyperion before April 1. There is every reason to believe that the University will turn out in great numbers for the performance...