Word: getting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...better speed and form. The drop kicking was decided principally on speed and accuracy. Taylor made three fair goals at a difficult angle from the twenty-five yard line, and was awarded the prize. The place kicking contest was decided solely on accuracy, Rainsford being the only contestant to get three goals from the twenty-five yard line...
...What men get in college life, which is of worth, is not wholly in lectures and recitations, but in the contact with educated men and seeing the ways of the world. Thus the old-time idea of a professor apart from the world and above it is outgrown; and such a man would not be the one who could direct consolidated work...
...sawed back and forth in the middle of the field, one side gaining it on a fumble, making a few yards, and then losing it on a fumble. The backs were not sure in the handling of punts, nor did the line hold sufficiently well for the fullbacks to get the punts off. The men got down slowly on the kick off, and did not tackle surely...
Fall baseball practice began yesterday, and will be continued as long as the weather permits. A continuous practice game was kept up yesterday afternoon, and all the candidates played a short time. The pitching and fielding were both done without much effort at speed, and served only to get the men limbered up. Sixty-four men were out, including Captain Wendell and Clarkson, Stillman, Murphy and Coburn of last year's team...
...from the Sultan of Turkey, through Hamdi Bey, the curator of the Imperial Museum at Constantinople, for Harvard excavations in Palestine. During the next few months he will probably send boxes of casts of Babylonian and Assyrian objects and any original material, such as clay tablets, which he may get...