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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...college solidarity. "There is no more valuable habit in life that any man can acquire than the habit of winning; and athletics is a means to that end. But there are many men not on the crew, and many pale faces are seen about college." The habit of proper exercise is not as general as it ought to be. We are too much in the habit of thinking that it takes a specialist to enter athletics. This is not so. "You have heard me say that I want to bring about a higher standard of scholarship at Harvard; I want...
...more races are to be run during the present season. In the Yale and intercollegiate meets the Harvard team will have opponents just as fast as those it met yesterday. It is not too late to make proper preparation for those meets if immediate steps are taken to provide a coach who can give the attention which is now so much needed...
...crews will line up for the start 60 feet apart from bow to stern, the starting positions being indicated by buoys, placed in the river at the proper intervals. Number one in each division will be farthest down-stream. A series of three shots will be fired for a starting signal. Between the first and second shots there will be two minutes, and between the second and third one. The third shot will be the signal for the start. Referees will be stationed along the shore, and bumps will be signaled either through a megaphone or by a pistol shot...
...places of trust and responsibility in official and in civil life. No college can show an equal number of alumni with better average records for public service. It is the West Point that trains men not only in engineering and in military science, but also in discipline and the proper discharge of responsibility, that will be described tonight...
...crews will line up for the start a boat's length apart from bow to stern and the starting positions will be indicated by buoys, placed in the river at the proper intervals. Number one in each division will be farthest down-stream. A series of three shots will be fired for a starting signal. Between the first and second shots there will be two minutes, and between the second and third, one minute. The third shot will be the signal for the start. Referees will be stationed along the shore, and bumps will be signalled either through a megaphone...