Word: weeklies
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Starting last Monday, the entire University crew squad went into strict training for the rest of the season. If conditions are favorable, there will be a race the latter part of next week between the three eights new composing the squad, after which some of the men will be dropped to the various class crews. It is expected that the training table will be started shortly after this race...
During the past week considerable progress has been made in class rowing, the orders of the crews gradually becoming more settled and the work assuming a more serious aspect throughout. Coach Brown has had charge of the Senior and Junior crews and Coach Stevenson of the Sophomores...
...large part of the time of the House is taken up with appropriation bills. The session of Congress which has just closed was of ten weeks' duration and during that time, one thousand million dollars was appropriated, or ten millions a week. We are now passing through a veritable orgy of Extravagance. With an enormous debt, and a large annual defleit, the Ways and Means Committee is now considering the revision of the tariff, and on next Tuesday will present a bill to Congress which, it is hoped, will increase the annual revenue by one hundred millions of dollars...
...University baseball squad is now having its fourth week of practice in the Cage, and the work seems to be well advanced for so early in the year. The batting is not quite so satisfactory as the rest of the work, but this is easily accounted for by the fact that the pitchers had two weeks' start over the rest of the men and have not been favoring the batters with easy balls. Coach Mathewson's three weeks' work with the pitchers ended last Saturday and was in every way a success. The squad made excellent progress under his direction...
...University association football team was defeated by 2 to 1 in the first game of the season, on Soldiers Field last Saturday, by the stewards of the S. S. Ivernia. Considering that the University team has had only one week of practice and that the field was in wretched condition, it played a good game against a team that has been together since last September. The game was close and exciting throughout but was characterized by ragged team-play...