Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...teams are about even on weight, each line averaging about 160 pounds. The Tufts backfield may be a little heavier but the University backs are fast and will offset the difference
...comfortable holidays at home or away from it--merit the strictest censure. The coming months will be no time for white flannels and tennis racquets. Although the arm of the "slacker law" cannot reach behind the 21-year wall the under age loafer is no less a useless dead weight, hardly "worth his feed." With every shipyard and every farm calling for men, his duty to work is imperative. Of the three months and more of vacation ten weeks should be the minimum which he should give. Nor should those who attend the July Camp feel that their duties...
...complain of politics; graft has at times been rife; inefficiency has characterized and will continue to characterize many branches of our military machine. On the whole, however, our horizon is brightening as we are finding our war-time stride. The prospects of the coming year point to a great weight in America's participation in the world struggle...
...with the weight of the advice of the biggest men in the country against us, it would be futile to persist. As President Lowell says, we are soldiers, "and the soldier does not select his duty...
...point of experience both University eights are practically equally at a disadvantage, as none of the oarsmen have rowed on the first boats of either university in a normal season. On paper Princeton is at a decided disadvantage both in weight and height...