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...other outside teams, it is imperative that the number of candidates for the team be at once increased. Two weeks is but a short time to develop a passable team from the best material; when the number of candidates is barely sufficient to make up a complete team, the task is well-nigh impossible. Every Freshman who has the slightest measure of athletic ability and who has the interests of his class at heart should consider himself under a personal obligation to come out for his lacrosse team this afternoon. The game is an excellent one; witness the enthusiasm...
...introduction just a word to remind readers of the difficulty of the reviewer's task nowadays. He must sit down, bent on honest criticism, which is the purpose of a review, and see continually flitting before him the vivid phantom of "precocity mated with the unreserve of a female infant." Deliver us from its clutches, for we know not what...
Coach Reeves, who developed the 1916 nine, will have a hard task to prepare the 1917 team for the first game, April 14, with Brookline High School. Nevertheless, with the advanced condition of the battery men, and with weather favorable for outdoor work, the prospects are encouraging...
...place on the library board this year who is not a member is an indication of this. The clause in the constitution permitting additional nominations to be made on petition of fifty members fails to help matters much, because the securing of fifty signatures is almost a prohibitive task. Nomination by petition should be made easier. Otherwise there is bound to be a feeling of dissatisfaction in the Union, and this will defeat its primary purpose...
...First and Second Groups and the innumerable scholarships. At present his advice on the subject is largely indefinite. He is told that scholarship is a fine thing, but not what it requires and what he can derive from it. To remedy this would not be a very difficult task, especially when the incoming class is concentrated in three dormitories...