Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yesterday Captain Perkins was unable to row and Donald was put in at 5. The crew was out but a short time as Mr. Perkins devoted most of the afternoon to coaching the men in tubs. The changing about has set the crew back and they consequently do not show so much improvement as the other crews. They have, however, when doing their best work an excellent beat in the stroke, and most of the men show excellent watermanship, getting their oars in neatly and feathering cleanly together. The greatest faults of the crew at present are lack of snap...
...field, Foster took the place of Clark who is ill, and at first, McCornick was severely handicapped by a broken finger. Both men, however, played vey creditable ball, McCornick especially making some brilliant stops. Laughlin played his usual steady game in the field but failed to show up very well at the bat. At second, Haughton was decidedly off his form, being accountable for several loose plays which were more or less inexcusable. His batting also seems to have fallen off considerably during the past week...
...lecture on the Holy Land this evening Professor Lyon will show how rich the Semitic Museum is in objects illustrating Palestine and the Bible. The Museum is much visited by teachers with their classes. Such visits give a sense of reality to the Biblical narratives and thus deepen one's knowledge and quicken his interest in matters oriental...
...because there is more than the usual amount of travelling to be done, and because the extra games will bring little if any increase in the gate receipts which, at best, have always been small for Freshman teams. It therefore rests with each individual member of the class to show his esprit de corps in making a liberal contribution for the support of the nine...
...received last week a new consignment of glass flowers, comprising twenty or thirty species of very complicated structure. They will be used to fill up gaps in the series, and are now nearly all in place. The river weeds have been put beside some desert plants, in order to show the differences between plants growing in water and those growing where there is but little moisture. In the case showing the relation of plants to animals are two species of bladderwort which capture minute water-animals. Some of the very beautiful tropical plants that Mr. Blaschka has been studying...