Word: center
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...season with an errorless game, Yale has made fourteen misplays in the last three contests, but the hitting of the team has greatly improved. Holden and Gordon are leading in batting, with averages of .437 and .428, respectively. Sawyer with 30 chances at second base; Holden, with 14 in center; and Gordon, with nine in right field, are the only members of the team who have made no misplays this season...
...although the Corporation is composed mainly of bankers, and although it is true that the College does not compare as an intellectual center with most of the English universities, the connection between the two appears rather remote. The Corporation owns the University, appoints and pays the professors, and administers, in general, all its affairs; but in the selection of courses and the direction of the matters of instruction, and in the internal management, the Corporation concerns itself but little. It acts upon the recommendation of the Faculty and the Overseers, and in many cases, merely serves as the "official rubber...
...Morgan Memorial Institute, a large social center in Boston, has offered to make over all uniforms that will be collected into ordinary wearing apparel, which will be sent abroad for European relief. All other clothing will be distributed among a number of organized charities in Boston and Cambridge, including the American Red Cross which has just terminated a similar drive...
...students' interest in athletics is the formation of an association of all undergraduates who are or have been members Yale teams. It is proposed to bring together the past and present athletes in a well-furnished club which will include every training table of the university, and provide a center for athletic activity...
...Garcelon started the present Freshman athletic class. He advocates that this work, now, entirely voluntary be amplified and made compulsory. "The solution of the problem of intramural athletics," said Mr. Garcelon, "the way to turn the attention of the 'bleacher student' from the college teams and center it on his own activities, is not through the speeches and magazine articles which have continued for years, nor through the radical alteration of any of the features of the 'big games,' nor through dumb-bell exercises and calisthenics; the practical method to bring this theory 'general athletics for all, highly specialized athletics...