Word: personnel
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clarity of vision seems sometimes to be dimmed. The writer has watched with pain the attempts of the athletic authorities to send one or two teams forth into competition with other colleges without the skilled training which everywhere else is regarded as indispensable. Whether the argument is that the personnel is so good that the men can afford to depend wholly upon their innate fitness and subjective inspirations, or on the other hand that it is so bad as to make it extravagant to waste a trainer upon them, does not appear. But either argument is fallacious...
...lacrosse at Harvard, and to designate the members of the squad by an amusing but not particularly delicate title. It is hard to understand why this feeling exists at Cambridge, but it undoubtedly does exist, and it can only be done away with by the good record and the personnel of the various University teams. The game itself is very interesting to watch and requires great skill and staying powers from those who take part in it. That it is as successful here as at present is rather remarkable, considering the support it receives. Yet last year the University team...
...personnel of the clubs is as follows...
Today the outlook is entirely different. Instead of dissatisfaction, there is unanimous approval of both the personnel and the methods of the coaching during the past season. Moreover a majority of the men who took part in the Yale game this year are left as a nucleus for next year's team. But even prospects as bright as these will be of no avail unless the same intelligence and determination that made this season a success are continued during the coming year...
...complete and working organization. At the meeting last night officers were chosen and the three delegates from the College at large elected, so now the Council really exists, ready to take part in undergraduate affairs in pursuance of the principles on which it was organized last spring. The personnel of the Council has been admirably chosen and the officers to whom a large part of the executive work is delegated by the constitution are well adapted to direct the activities...