Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation of the University, left Cambridge late Friday night for Washington. D. C. where he has both personal and college business to attend to. It is uncertain how long this business will keep him in Washington, but, at the completion of it, he will go west to Burlington, lowa, to arrange about the Charles Eliot Perkins Scholarships which were presented to the University early this fall by Mrs. Perkins. Mr. Greene will be gone about two weeks...
Harvard's answers to such questions have never been uncertain. But in other parallel cases her clarity of vision seems sometimes to be dimmed. The writer has watched with pain the attempts of the athletic authorities to send one or two teams forth into competition with other colleges without the skilled training which everywhere else is regarded as indispensable. Whether the argument is that the personnel is so good that the men can afford to depend wholly upon their innate fitness and subjective inspirations, or on the other hand that it is so bad as to make it extravagant...
...determine the means by which the danger of injuries may be minimized. Most critics assert that the serious injuries occur in mass plays; if this is true the obvious remedy is to introduce more open play by removing the restrictions which now make the forward pass such an uncertain and desperate expedient. The last game on Soldiers Field showed how seldom this play will be used as long as, it is hedged about by limitations which make it a mere last resource. Such a change would also satisfy those who want a more spectacular contest than the present rules encourage...
...Freshman football team practice yesterday consisted in a blackboard talk, a drill in formations and plays against the substitutes in which particular attention was paid to forming interference around the runner, and punting to the backfield. The backs were very weak in catching punts, Wendell being especially uncertain in this department. FIRST TEAM. SECOND TEAM. Browne, Houston, l.e. r.e., Whitney McKay, Bush, l.t. r.t., Davis L. Withington, l.g. r.g., Blake P. Withington, c. c., Barber Fisher, r.g. l.g., Knapp Fish, r.t. l.t., Coburn L. D. Smith, r.e. l.e., Blanchard Wigglesworth, O'Flaherty, q.b. q.b., Merrill Corbett, l.h.b. r.h.b., Tryon Leslie...
...afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. In the race yesterday, darkness made it impossible for the crews to line up accurately for the start, as the coxswains could see scarcely a boat's length, and had difficulty in holding their courses after the gun was fired. The finish was so uncertain that the judges have decided that the race must be rowed again at a time when it is possible to see what is going...