Word: question
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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With the coming of the more important baseball games next week, the old question of organized cheering will have to be settled again. Every spring we see the spontaneous applause of the earlier part of the season change into concerted cheering under the direction of numerous cheer-leaders, who drag the last breaths from the supporters of the team in a frenzied endeavor to help bring about a victory. However righteous we may pretend to be it cannot be denied that this cheering is calculated to unnerve the opposing nine as much as it is to support the university team...
...Rector of St. Margaret's Church. As Rector of St. Margaret's Church, Canon Henson is preacher to the House of Commons, and so occupies a distinguished but peculiar position in the church. He has been very prominent in the recent controversies in England over the "open church" question, and on account of his democratic tendencies. Canon Henson has just delivered a series of lectures at Yale on the "Lyman Beecher Foundation on Preaching...
...result that the spectators at a meet seldom see what is going on. Naturally their interest in the outcome is not particularly great, and the number of participants shows that the event fails to interest many of the University athletes. It is suggested that the solution of the question lies in erecting a net in the Stadium, so that the hammer-throwers can contest in view of the spectators without any risk of danger to the latter from the flying weights...
Interest in the matter led us to look further into the question of mitts and gloves as used by the big teams of the present. Almost without exception we find the World's Champions, the National and American League teams, the minor leagues, semi-professional, college and amateur nines all sing mitts and gloves made by the A. J. Reach Company of Philadelphia. The name tells much, for Mr. Reach himself was one of the famous second basemen of his day, and so knows what is required in the shape of mitts and gloves...
...direction of Coaches Donovan and Quinn. All winter we have been hearing most discouraging reports about the quantity and quality of the available material and about the ineligibility of various prominent members of the squad on account of probation. Now that the April hour examinations have settled the question of eligibility for the rest of the year, and settled it favorably for many of the doubtful men, the members of the University will be able to see what their team is going to amount to. The interest in track work has been increasing in the last few years...