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...There is no question that many of the weaknesses developed in these maneuvers are repeated again and again for lack of discipline. ... A commander who cannot develop proper discipline must be replaced...
...some sort of mental geometrics along the following lines: (1) It's a Cornell team; (2) Carl Suavely is the coach; (3) Therefore, it's a good team. They won't believe us when we tell them that it is not yet a good team, although it might possibly develop to such a stature. It will have to get good to keep company with the rest of the Ivy League, which is supposedly really "hep" this year...
...this was merely a symptom. Underneath lay a new, realistic conviction that Britain's fate was closely tied to Russia's. Tanks-for-Russia Week was only a beginning. Tanks happened to be Russia's most immediate need, but other needs would develop far faster than the British could satisfy them...
...Almost all lowlanders develop mountain sickness, known as soroche, if they live above 10,000 feet. (When flying at this level, aviators don their oxygen masks.) The severity of soroche varies widely with different individuals: some ruin their hearts; others become acclimatized in 15 or 20 years...
Chief result of the contest was the discovery that individual skills of the undergraduates were highly developed for this early point in the season but that smooth teamwork and coordination was completely lacking. Coach Jim MacDonald attributed this to the fact that last week, the first of practice, was spent chiefly in conditioning drills which did little to develop any cooperation among the players...