Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...development of the Pennsylvania, team this season has been gradual and fairly consistent. A rather poor showing was made in some of the early games, largely because several of the regular players were, until recently, prohibited by the faculty from joining the team. In fact, the Columbia game a week ago was the first in which Pennsylvania was able to put her strongest team into the field. This game, won by a score of 16 to 0, showed the team strong in many points, but also revealed many faults, which the coaches have since tried to remedy. The line...
...crew squad has been rowing in barges. Three provisional eights have been maintained with little change during the week, the remainder of the squad rowing in pair-oars. The stroke has been kept very slow, seldom above 20 to the minute, and some improvement in the direction of a gradual and steady recover is already evident...
...present time, however, the tendency is to regard theism as a conclusion rather than as an axiom. Throughtful men nowadays do not consider revelations as miraculous disclosures direct from God, but rather as the gradual awakening of an inward impelling force for good. This conception is in line with a changed idea of man. Of late years it has come to be believed that the will, the ambition and the emotions should be considered co-ordinate with the reason as guides to man's actions. This idea brings with it the feeling that a conviction due to perfectly worked...
...requirements or come up to the standards set by the previous players. Among the men who had been substitutes on the team in former years were: Wright, Jones and Knowlton, tackles; Burgess, Clark and Matthews, ends; Daly, quarterback; and Meier, Stillman, Knowles, Hurley, and Putnam, backs. A gradual process of elimination finally left these men, together with King, A. Marshall, Mills, Shea, Bleakie, Hovey, Lyon, and a few others, as the players best suited for the vacant positions...
...laid out as nearly as possible on the plan of the intercollegiate cross country course in New York, will be used hereafter in order to accustom the men to the water jumps and other obstacles. The runs will be lengthened from day to day so as to insure a gradual development in the condition...