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...week the football team has improved greatly from its showing in the Annapolis game. This improvement was especially noticeable in the game with Bucknell last Saturday. Here, spite of the soggy field and the drizzling rain which fell continuously throughout both halves, the backfield played with a snap and vigor that carried the Bucknell team off its feet. Around the ends and through the line they went with equal case, and this continued when the entire second string of backs had gone in. The linemen played low and hard, and put up such a strong defense that Bucknell could...
...modestly and gracefully; and the discussion of the football situation is so clear and simple that it surely cannot be adequate. But the distinction of the number depends chiefly on "The Travel Papers of Arminius." Without striking originality of ideas, this essay on "Being Abroad" has yet by the vigor and maturity of its style and its pleasant suggestion of personality a charm that makes one hope that its promise of later instalments will be kept. And this one does not often hope for in a College journal...
...whole, the work was not entirely satisfactory. The men spaced poorly and did not row as smoothly as they have recently been doing. All, however, are in good physical condition, and rowed with life and vigor. Morgan at 3, who has not yet fully settled down in his position, was slightly ragged in his blade work...
...first stretch the boat listed badly to star-board at the catch of each stroke, but went more smoothly afterwards. On the way upstream Richards rowed half of the distance, before Morgan succeeded him. The boat rode very steadily when Richards was in, but seemed to lack the vigor which was evident when either Morgan or Emmons rowed. The poor showing made by each of the men who rowed 3 can partly be accounted for by the fact that the position in the boat was not rigged to suit them individually, and for Morgan especially by the fact that...
Lately the crew has been going down stream in the launch to Longwood bridge and from there has rowed to the Union Boat Club and back to the boathouse without stopping. Yesterday the men showed a good deal more vigor than at the end of last week...