Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan starts a man of lesser ability at the bottom and gives him the opportunity, by practice and work on the class team squad, of working his way up. The old plan started him at the top, on the University squad, and unless he could prove his worth dropped him, perhaps to have him give up baseball for good...
...snappy hockey practice was held at the Arena yesterday, the entire squad reporting. Teams A and B held a short scrimmage, being succeeded by teams C and D. The men at the bottom of the string were kept on the ice the longest, and given a thorough work...
...choice by marking a cross (X) after the name of the candidate he favors most; in the third he will indicate his second preference in a similar manner; in the fourth he will mark a cross (X) after every other candidate whom he is willing to support. At the bottom of the ballot the voter will find blank spaces in which to write the name of any candidate which does not already appear on the ballot. If a voter indicates more than one choice for the same candidate, only the first preference will be counted...
...spite of the fact that Cornell, which plays the University in hockey at the Arena tonight at 8.15 o'clock, now stands at the bottom of the Intercollegiate League, the game will by no means be an easy one, for a week ago it took Yale 25 minutes of overtime play to score a 2 to 1 victory over the Ithacans. In addition to this the University team is somewhat crippled by the slight illness of Captain Huntington and an injury to Sortwell, who will probably be unable to get into the game...
...course such an argument as this leaves out of consideration all those men whose genuine interest does lead them to do regular work. But their scholarship is presumably high anyway. It is in an improvement by those at the bottom that there is the greatest room to raise the average...