Word: months
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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When the football Rules Committee meets next month to formulate the regulations for next year it may very well consider the presence of coaches on the side-lines as a subject requiring legislation. The present rules forbid coaching from the side-lines, and the obvious intention is that when a team is once on the field it shall play its own game, depending on its own initiative for the solving of an opponent's attack and for the successful use of its own plays...
During the past month the University cross-country team has been badly defeated in three races, in consequence of which the opinion has already been expressed, even in a Harvard publication, that the team is not properly qualified to represent Harvard, and should therefore no longer be allowed to enter intercollegiate competitions. This is the unsportsmanlike spirit with which basketball, after a slow decline, was last year buried by action of the Athletic Committee. It is the spirit which, if persisted in, will kill any sport, no matter how flourishing it may once have been...
...lecturer in history at the University of Chicago; in 1903-04 he spent half the year lecturing here; and in 1904 and 1908 he taught in the summer sessions of the University of California. In 1908 he received the degree of LL.D. from Illinois, and last month, at the Inauguration of President Lowell, he received the degree of Litt.D. In conferring the degree President Lowell referred to him as "a pioneer in American history, who has set forth in memorable pages the vast influence of Western expansion upon the civilization of our country...
...built on a solid basis of dietetic righteousness. His arguments for better health and efficiency will be based on his own experience and the results of experiments upon himself. Between the ages of 54 and 60 Mr. Fletcher recorded an increase of 21 per cent. in strength tests. Last month he registered 840 pounds on the spring lifting machine one-half of which is the average in gymnasium records. By means of a cinematograph arranged specially for this lecture, Mr. Fletcher will show a series of acrobatic, somersault, and high-diving feats performed by him at the age of sixty...
...lectures, which will be at 2.30 o'clock, will come on Mondays, except the two following Christmas, and will continue through the month of February. The course will be given in King's Chapel, on Tremont Street, Boston, and the admission is free, no tickets being required...