Word: crewe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revolutionary changes in the educational system of American preparatory schools are advocated by Mather A. Abbott, formerly Professor of Latin and crew coach at Yale, and now Headmaster of Lawrenceville School, in an interview in the Yale News. He unreservedly condemns the present system and declares the schools "hidebound by tradition and the bugbear of the college entrance examinations...
Herbert Jacques '11 next pointed out the semblance of track work to football, to baseball, crew, and hockey, in the necessity of drilling in details and technique. "Some men may say that Cornell and Pennsylvania get their victories because of conditions different from those here at Harvard, but any man had better throw that idea out of the window as bunk. At Cornell they have 250 men each fall for the cross country team alone. They fight with every drop of fighting blood they have." He insisted that attention must be given to details of how to work...