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...system now is to collect a small body of men to train, and educate them carefully for any given team, to dismiss the worse one by one, and at last retain only the necessary number of players. The fault in this method is that many come to college without that education in any branch of athletics which for all the teams - except the class crews - is necessary as a guarantee that they are worth educating. How many who are indifferent players when young, as they develop their bodies, develop also a talent in some branch of athletics. Others who have...
...will be seen, the same general faults run straight through the boat. The whole crew should be very careful about the time, and should keep their arms perfectly straight. Then, too, they must remember to keep their shoulders down. But perhaps the most noticeable fault is the hang at the finish. The men, especially stroke, should come right forward at the end of each stroke...
...spoke, a few days since, of the annoyance arising from the bad condition of the water-works in the gymnasium. This trouble was the fault of the directors. But there has been brought to our notice again and again, an intolerable nuisance which cannot so conveniently be laid to the door of the gymnasium authorities: it is caused by some -, we hesitate to call them by the name they plainly deserve...
...that fifty men are deprived of the most valuable privilege which the college can offer, - the use of the gymnasium? For this is the case, inasmuch as men cannot exercise in their ordinary clothing with benefit, and clothing cannot be left in safety, except under lock and key. The fault does not lie with Dr. Sargent or with the gymnasium officials; of course these gentlemen desire to do all that they can to make their department a credit to the university. The Superintendent of Buildings, who is the Bursar also, has entire charge of the matter, and as we understand...
...result and leaving the cause till next week? It is not the amount of work merely, that counts in History 13, but the amount of work done in the right way. A goes to the library; spends forenoon in ransacking the shelves, with meagre result - not his fault to be sure, but C's who is ahead of him. B brings his books for general reading - sits in his easy chair and studies the whole history intelligently. A says he works hard; B says he doesn't. Then A growls...