Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Locker Building, and all men who expect to enter should sign up as soon as possible. The list of events includes the 40-yard dash, 300, 600, 1000-yard and mile runs, shot-put and pole-vault. All events will be with handicap and men must have taken strength tests...
...Freshman squads will be picked and the remainder of the men now constituting those squads will be divided into a series of class and club crews. Intensive training will commence immediately. At present the University boats are still divided into sets of two eights each as nearly equal in strength as possible. Under the system to be adopted after the recess it is planned by the rowing management to arrange at least two races for each class or club shell...
...democratic countries has overcome the militaristic combine which tried to make itself the dominant power in the world, peace will leave the conquered countries in ruins, unless the solid, stable part of the world unites to set it in order and to give it the opportunity to grow into strength. A combination of nations has been found absolutely necessary to fight the war; without some combination of nations, there will be another war to fight before many years...
...most conspicuous effect of the war upon education in America, so far as can thus far be discerned, is the impetus given to the teaching and study of the sciences. The old-line colleges are away below their normal strength in students, but the technical institutions are filled to the brim and most of them are now wondering what they will do with the new influx which seems certain to come next autumn. The war has developed technical industries to an unprecedented extent in this country, and the call for trained men is far greater than it ever was before...
...report for the University eight, in order that another crew may be organized, the plan being to divide the eights into sets of two crews each. There are now thirteen crews at work on the machines. Coach Haines plans to keep the University crews rowing in pairs of equal strength until the spring vacation...