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...much interest is shown, and if the material looks at all strong, a university seven will be selected next year and a schedule of intercollegiate games arranged. One great advantage for Maine is that it rarely will suffer from lack of ice. This year there was ice eight inches thick before Christmas on a stream of running water near the college. A rink has been constructed on the campus for the inter-class games...
...centre of the line Dadmun, Wallace and Taylor played a fairly good game. This trio, however, must be in the thick of the fight at every moment, and the three men do not yet work together with sufficient power. The Penn. State linemen, strong and aggressive, repulsed the Harvard line often, bursting great holes in the Crimson defense through which effective Penn. State bucks were hurled. The centre of the Harvard line neither held with the tenacity necessary to a firm defense, nor did it succeed in throwing back the opposing line with enough force to make way for Harvard...
...long talk in the Locker Building and a half-hour's signal drill in the Cage, but dissatisfied with the showing being made lately, Coach Haughton wound up the afternoon's work by staging a hard scrimmage on the field. The play was impeded by the thick mist and wet turf, but before it was stopped at 5 o'clock by utter darkness, every man was sent in to take part. No scoring was made, for the University team could not make consistent progress through the seconds' line, this being the only safe method of attack on the slippery field...
...soon as we left St. Nicholas evidences that we were in close proximity to the battle-line crowded in on us thick and fast. We passed several detachments of mud-stained infantry who bore unmistakable signs of having passed the previous night in the trenches. The fields on either side of the road were pitted with shell holes; many of the farmhouses were charred and roofless; and the plain wooden crosses which marked the graves of fallen heroes became increasingly frequent as we sped along. Some of the bodies had been buried so hastily that the spring rains and early...
...College Office has received word that Lawrence Brokenshire '16, of Cambridge, has been killed by the poisonous effects of a gas bomb while fighting in the trenches near Ypres. Brokenshire left for the war last summer with the 12th Canadian regiment, and has been in the thick of the fighting ever since...