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...team in the future, that he must keep up in his studies and be absolutely regular in attending lectures while in Cambridge. Failure to do this on the part of a few men has injured the chances of a number of University and Freshman teams this year. The worst example this spring has been the 1908 crew. Two of the men in the first boat got on probation after the season had begun, and this loss necessitated a general rearrangement of the crew, and greatly retarded its development. It is impossible to believe that athletes would so neglect their work...
...said Professor Sumichrast, by a natural reaction. During the period of social pomposity and court revelries in the following reign, the administration was wrested from the dissipated debauchee, Louis XV, passing first into the hands of the ministers, and then into those of the mistresses of the king, the worst of whom was the notorious Madame Du Barry. Upon their accession to the throne, the Dauphin of France, Louis XVI, and particularly his Austrian wife, the archduchess, Marie Antoinette, met with great favor. But the king proved weak and obstinate; while new complications--the trial of Cardinal de Rohan...
...measure to the fact that the ball was several times arbitrarily given to the University team for the purpose of developing a stronger offense. The second eleven was as a whole not very strong, but was several times able to hold the University team for downs. The worst feature of the practice was the extraordinary amount of fumbling, due largely to poor passing by Parkinson. Brill was frequently brought back of the line from tackle to carry the ball, rushing for good gains. Kerans, who played quarterback on the second eleven, made two brilliant diving tackles during the scrimmage. Hurley...
...worst thing about "Dearth" is its title. In "The Witch-Child," by H. A. Bellows, the old ballad theme of "Kemp Owyne" is treated in a manner suggested by a familiar poem by Keats--a sufficiently ambitious attempt which might have been more disastrous than...
...backs of the University team started quickly and followed the ball well but the interference was still ragged. On the defense, the team's failure to fight hard when their opponents retained the ball by successive gains recalled one of the worst faults of last year...