Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Coach Donovan expects to hold weekly handicap meets for all candidates throughout the winter. A system of points will be carried through all these meets and, after the final winter carnival, prizes will be awarded holders of high scores...
...skating rink, however, the river has one serious handicap. There is no safe place to leave shoes or surplus clothing. A skater must either be burdened by carrying these cumbersome things with him or trust them to the uncertain honesty of the small boys along the banks, who may or may not be present at the time of reckoning. To abolish this inconvenience the Locker Room of either the Weld or University Boat Club should be opened for use. Possible confusion of articles could be avoided by keeping an attendant there to check them for a small...
...football squad at Amherst is working under a severe handicap, because many of its most promising players have already been taken by the government. This fact has forced the management to cancel all of the games scheduled to date, but it still hopes that a good representative team can be turned out. At present, enough men for three practice elevens have reported, and they are working hard under the instruction of Coach Gettell...
More candidates are wanted for all branches of the competition, particularly for the business end, where the work will consist largely in securing advertisements and subscriptions. No handicap will be incurred by those men who report now. Candidates for the art department should report to E. C. Storrow in Standish E 22, those for advertising and subscription to G. Forster in Standish E 21, those for copy and literary to T. H. Mills in Gore A 24, and those for the photograph department to H. R. Atkinson in James Smith...
...announced for the second day of the annual mid-winter track carnival to be run off. Only a small number of men responded to the summons for the interdormitory and interclass relay races, and it was decided, therefore, to hold only the seven-lap and the 20-lap handicap races for entrants from any class in the University. Both these runs were necessarily made in unusually slow time, as the contestants had great difficulty in keeping to the course on account of the water-soaked boards. No time was taken for either race...