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...afternoon in work which, judged even by the discouraging practices which have been only too frequent lately, seemed distinctly retrograde. Today there will be no practice; on next Monday and Thursday the work will be light, and Tuesday and Wednesday of the last week are thus left to correct the faults of a season...
...that is, at intervals of five, twelve, seventeen, thirty-three and fifty- two days. Dr. Jaggar has had several men at work plotting curves to fill this series, and the general result points to about December 20 as the date of the next explosion, if this theory is correct. The action of Mt. Pelee bears a great analogy to the action of geysers in these particulars...
...Marshall is a capable man at left guard but is too slow and indifferent. Right halfback will be filled by one of an excellent group of players but by which one is still a question. Every individual on the team and the team itself has many faults to correct before the final game with Yale on November 22, but secret practice will be continued up to that time and considerable improvement may be expected...
...evidence. The chief fault to be criticised is the one that has existed throughout the season, slowness both in the line and back of it. The forwards are strong and heavy but play in a lifeless way and the strenuous efforts of the coaches during the week to correct this fault have met with only partial success. The backs start slowly, depending almost entirely on the ability of the line-men to open up big holes for them. In interference the team shows good possibilities. The guards have been very prominent in this work. More fumbling marked the work...
...time or inclination to read the newspapers carefully. But the most vital of these questions, which he would find treated piecemeal in the newspapers are discussed in their entirety in a class debating club. This good with two others--ease in expressing one's thoughts in public and a correct habit of thought in examining live questions--are easily within the reach of even those who see in themselves no promise as great debaters or who have no such ambition...