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...work for the fielders will not start with any strenuous practice but will consist mainly of a general work-out to get the men limbered up. During the first few days Coach Slattery will send them through light batting, bunting, and fielding work while Trainer Donovan will start his conditioning exercises by sending his men a daily runs. The fielding candidates have already been through a certain amount of this hardening process by setting-up work at the Hemenway Gymnasium under the direction of the Physical Department...
...Harvard University branch of the Shifters is dying, but the true American spirit of fraternity survives--we now have the Ku Klux Klan. Throughout the University strenuous efforts are being made to secure members. Have you any spite to vent against the Catholics, the Jews, the Negroes, the Socialists, the Indians, the Chinese, the Japanese, or any foreign born? The Klan is looking for you. Have you a secret desire to wear a white hood and be taught to shudder at the reports of Klan spies concerning the machinations of "three groups attempting to gain selfish domination over our country...
This year the training will be strenuous as the team has an exceedingly long and hard schedule to face. Thirty-one games have been listed which means that the nine will have to play an average of three games a week
...Crimson sextet that tied the Westminster players in the gruelling contest on Monday night, for Coach Claflin sent his men through another workout in the afternoon, when the team met the Melrose sextet in a practice scrimmage. The University skaters showed up well in spite of the strenuous play the day before, and they succeeded in nosing out their opponents with the same well organized attack that they used against Westminster. The work-out was part of the week's stiff schedule that Coach Claflin has planned in order to bring the team up to the highest point of efficiency...
Light practice featured the workout of the Crimson yesterday afternoon, Coach Wachter attempting nothing more strenuous than a signal drill and formation practice. Gordon and Fitts who were unable to be present Thursday due to mid-year examinations were again in uniform and went through the last work-out with the team...