Word: whips
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feathered thrill of birds." Mr. La Farge's "To My Goddess" exhibits feeling for the music of verse and contains pretty details. Unhappily the reviewer's copy omits the last line of the second and last stanza, and reads,--"Then lovelier than the hermit-thrush's call, Than whip-poor-will's insistent threnody, Christopher La Farge '20" which, I am sure, was not the poet's intention...
...more Freshmen are needed to form the basis of a strong relay team, while unless more University candidates come out before the end of the week the outlook for an informal team will not be bright. The coaching staff has three weeks before the Christmas vacation in which to whip the runners and field event men into shape, and all men who intend to go out for track this year are expected to report now in order to gain the valuable early training. Field event men are especially needed, since only four Freshmen and no University athletes signed...
Coach Leary had his Navy team hard at work yesterday as he has but six days in which to whip a large squad with great individual ability into a smooth working eleven. At Camp Devens it is reported that P. D. Haughton '99, has taken active charge of the Army team...
...Henry Leary '05, field coach of the 1916 University football team was at the field yesterday to help drill the Freshman squad. During the rest of the season he will be out with the team several days a week in order to whip the team into shape for its later games. After directing a long drill in drop kicking and in running through plays, Coach Leary expressed his views on the football situation as follows...
...last year. Unlike the candidates for Captain Brickley's eleven, the men who reported to Captain Mahan were for the most part very inexperienced, comparatively untutored in the rudiments of the game. With an exceptionally stiff schedule ahead, then, the problem confronting Coach Haughton last September was quickly to whip an eleven into shape and at the same time to drill fundamentals into a "green" squad. A kind Providence has proved lenient in keeping small the injured list, but the history of the season to date well shows the difficulties which the coaches have had to meet in handling...