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...still a theory; nobody has actually induced men to come out and coached them yet. The nearest approach was in class swimming and basketball this year--successful but not successful enough. Physical benefits were derived; there was organization; and still something was lacking. There must be one king-pin, one master mind in charge who can direct and administer an unbroken policy even in these smaller leagues. This is the function of the Director of Athletics...
...Sections in Topography will meet at Holden Chapel promptly at 2.30 P. M. on the days assigned them. Each man is directed to provide himself with a 4-H lead pencil, a good eraser and a large-headed pin...
...these raids have been unsuccessful in any permanent advantage. A few prisoners have been taken, but no dent has been made in the lines. The raids have been generally repulsed with heavy losses. The Prussians are paying dear in their search for the elusive weak spot. We pin no faith on their ability to find...
...will be more than out-distanced in the dashes, in which L. N. Thurston of Yale will be an easy winner. The relay, too, will in all probability go to the Elis, as they recently failed by only three seconds of equaling the intercollegiate record. The University must pin its hopes of winning points on the plunge, in which the New Haven men are said to be weak, and the dive, in which there should be a close contest...
...thole pin system of rigging long antedates the American style and has never been supplanted in England. It was revived in this country by Coach Guy Nickalls of the Yale crew, and has been used ever since by that college. If Coach Wright should decide that the swivel locks are more advantageous for his crew than the present system, Yale will be the only college in the United States which still holds to the thole pins Neither Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, nor the University has ever adopted the foreign rigging, but it was tried at Pennsylvania under the regime of Coach...