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...Varsity baseball candidates were given their first out-door practice of the season yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. The time was spent in batting flies and grounders, although the ground was too soft for any accurate work. The practice will continue to be held out of doors as long as the favorable weather persists. It is probable that the new cage on Soldiers Field will be completed in the course of the next few days, so that it will be ready for use in case the squad be driven indoors unexpectedly...
Borne in the breath of the soft eveaway...
...very configuration of the landscape about them. Divided into communities by mountain ranges, they had a chance to develop along individual lines, to acquire a distinctive spirit of thought. The lines of the country are gentle and undulating, always suggesting what lies beyond. The coloring is of soft grays, pinks and violets, calling for the same restraint on the part of the artist as is shown by Nature herself. Everywhere one sees a combination of great variety with the utmost delicacy and refinement,- an effect which no sensitive imagination could resist...
...editorial of the current number of the Advocate sets a criterion for contributions which it is sincerely to be hoped will be held to in future. The writer classes a large proportion of his contributions as "Soft Melancholy, Dull Despairing and Dramatically Tragic." He might have added Weirdly Foolish and Sentimentally Tiresome. Unfortunately many past stories of the Advocate have been one or all of these...
...change from the excellent track on Holmes Field to the heavy, soft track at New Haven probably had something to do with it. Possibly, too, the trip down unsettled some of the men. But, after all, one who thinks the matter over is forced to conclude that the team as a whole was palpably overtrained. Not a single man equalled his performance of a week before against Pennsylvania, and all the men seemed spiritless and dead. Indeed, after the amount of work they have had, little more could be expected of them. After a long season of winter training with...