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...Glee Club's series of concerts at Symphony Hall. These concerts were scheduled for Thursday evenings, December 16, February 17 and April 7. They were arranged at these times in order not to interfere with other undergraduate engagements, so they would be well attended by the student body. To avoid conflicts, however. It was found best to change the dates to Wednesday, December 15, Thursday, February 17, and Wednesday, April 6. Application blanks for seats at these concerts are now being sent to every member of the University. The prices for the series of three concerts will...
When this preliminary work was over the waiting second team was called into the Stadium for a 40-minute dummy scrimmage in which the coaches made the men play so as to avoid danger of last minute injuries...
...over-confidence, relaxation, what Theodore Roosevelt called the "slackening of our moral fibre"--that is the thing we must avoid, if we would win games and championships. Whether the issue be territory or touchdowns, it is wiser to fight in the ranks than to watch from the mountain...
...fall practice. In previous years the men have reported for track after Christmas entirely unknown to the coaches and entirely out of condition, so that it was necessary to pick a team in two or three weeks from raw, untrained and unknown material. It is in order to avoid this necessity that fall track is being conducted this year...
These concerts have been arranged on Thursday evenings in order to avoid and conflicts with any other undergraduate engagements. The first of these concerts will be given on December 16, in conjunction with Albert Spalding, the American violinist; the second on February 17, with Frieda, Hempel, the famous prima donna, formerly with the Metropolitan Opera Company, and for the third, on April 7, the club has again engaged Fritz Kreisler, whose concert with the club last year attracted so much attention...