Word: working
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regular players on the University eleven did not line up for practice yesterday afternoon because of the stiffness which still exists as a result of the game with Pennsylvania. They will resume work again today in secret practice. The substitutes played the second eleven yesterday and had considerable difficulty in advancing the ball. As the men had never before played together, team play was lacking and the whole offense was generally ragged. On the defense, however, the second eleven could make no gains, owing to the vigorous tackling of the substitute forwards. The second eleven has dropped the guardsback style...
...four square feet of wall space have been reserved in the United States section for the exhibit, which will consist of sixteen transparencies from original plates taken at Cambridge and Arequipa, three wing frames holding about two hundred pictures of star clusters and planets, and twenty wall pictures of work done at observatories. The exhibits are arranged in order to a height of thirteen feet...
...played in the Pennsylvania game are still too stiff for practice. They will be given a rest again today to put them in as good condition as possible before the hard work preparatory to the Yale game. No serious injuries, however, resulted from Saturday's game and the entire squad will be in condition to play by the middle of the week...
Captain Hare was the main strength of his team, and as usual, undertook the bulk of the work. His confidence in his own powers unfortunately led him to attempt to rush the ball himself when the use of other men might have resulted in more gains. Coombs kicked well and was strong on the defense...
William Scollay Whitwell ex-'29 died in Hancock, N. H., last Tuesday at the advanced age of ninety-one years. He was educated in the Boston schools, and, after a course in the Lawrence Scientific School, received a practical working training in railway machine shops at Dover, N. H. He then went south, and, after some railroad work in Georgia, surveyed the line from Talahassee, Fla., to the east coast during the Seminole war. He was later called to Boston and given charge of building the Cochituate water works. His later years were passed in travel through Egypt with Ralph...