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...conclude their reading with a sigh of satisfaction, and, like the Coach, need lose on sleep. To one who for several years has not road closely the baseball columns of the daily papers, this article shows the amazing rapidity of growth possible in the technical language of a popular sport. Start who knock holes in batting averages are hold friends; a "comer" who "has a long way to come" and even the divagations of a star, who, though assured that he "cannot be-touched," nevertheless "worries himself wild," and toward the middle of the game "goes...
...competitions shall be conducted by the manager, who shall base his choice upon executive ability, earnestness, energy, and knowledge of the sport...
This shall be a qualifying round, and the three best men chosen by the manager shall be put up for election by a body of voters consisting of the active "H" men of the particular sport concerned, and the captains and managers of the other three major teams. In this election the qualifications of the men shall be carefully discussed by all present...
...cast of the play is as follows: James Percival Brown, a recent graduate of Harvard, commonly known as "Jimmy" G. L. Yocum '07 Joshua Phineas Brown, who has just made a "million" F. Taft '07 Knight Byrd, a sport, also an old college chum of Jimmy's J. T. Houghton '08 Wright Moran Moore, reporter for the "Howl" C. N. Eaton '08 Vandeventer Parks, a stock manipulator S. Crowell '09 Selum Short, a broker H. B. Sheahan '09 Francis Parks, daughter of Vandeventer Parks R. D. Murphy '08 Estrella Flushing, hotel clerk and stenographer L. M. Potter '08 Bell-boys...
...more protest against the assumed hostility to intercollegiate games of the special investigating committee. Its argument, like that of most students writing on this topic, is vitiated by assuming that wholesome competition stands or falls with the intercollegiate system. The excessive emphasis here given to the importance of intercollegiate sport in maintaining the influence and reputation of the University seems to the reviewer only another proof of the charge that athletics are viewed by many students in a totally false perspective. A. H. Elder describes the growth of lacrosse in the American colleges, and makes a plea for its further...