Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...moral. The Forum, immediately after the recess, will meet to discuss the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. Many fortunate students will escape from the depression of the Weeks boom into atmosphere charged with other enthusiasms. The members of the Chicago Club will find themselves in a water-tight Sherman compartment; Pennsylvania will find Penrose and Brumbaugh (both Harvard men, by the way) contending for laical honors; some may even reach the headwaters of the Missouri where Borah thunders or the Mississippi valley where Hadley,--the matinee idol of the last convention,--holds his afternoon performances. Here is an opportunity...
...take his place in case of injury, and it does not look as though 1919 would produce anyone suitable for the position as a regular. Ames 1917 and Blake 1918 were the two best substitutes this season, but neither showed himself capable of consistently good judgment in tight places. If Eberstadt 1917 is able to play, the situation will be cleared considerably, as he gave promise of making a good quarter from his play in freshman and sophomore years...
...played today requires specialists in all departments--" so runs your leading article. Harvard, apparently, exists to turn out water-tight-compartment specialists. Since the present system of competitive intranational and international life breeds war, then Harvard should turn its talents and energies to the "adequate" production of specialists in war. . . . not yielding to West Point in this achievement...
...Princeton and Yale baseball teams will meet in the second game of their series at Princeton this afternoon. In the first game, Yale was defeated by a 2 to 1 score, Deyo, of Princeton, pitching air-tight ball. The third game will be played at New York next Wednesday...
...strike-out. R. Hitchcock '18 who finished the game in the box retired eight men and allowed not a run. His pitching was consistently good and he kept his opponents puzzled to the end. Ziegler, the Huntington twirler, did well throughout the game, showing particularly good form in tight places. In one case, with the sacks full and not a man out he fanned three in succession. The Freshmen's only real rally was in the fourth when they managed to get three men to cross the plate in safety...