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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interdormitory teams without sufficient practice as a unit. Victory is, of course, not an end in itself; but human nature is so constituted that the prospect of victory is needed to bring out the greatest enthusiasm and effort. One-sided competition is unsatisfactory and disheartening. And the proposal to abandon Freshman intercollegiate athletics entirely involves a revolutionary principle. Carried to its logical conclusion it would involve the abolition of all intercollegiate sports. As the system stands the incentive of a Freshman game with Yale is probably essential to the greatest competitive development of future University players. The idea of persuading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERDORMITORY AND INTERCOLLEGIATE. | 1/27/1916 | See Source »

...Yale crew committee has announced that Yale crews will have their spring practice on the Housatonic River, below Derby, on a four-mile course which the committee has recommended. Temporary quarters will be erected for housing the shells and for crew dressing-rooms. The crews will abandon the harbor entirely. Should the Housatonic prove to be an ideal course, arrangements will be made to transfer by barges the George Adee boathouse, which cost $100,000 to erect. The need of funds to move the boathouse seems to be the only drawback to the proposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Crews Change Practice Course | 12/4/1915 | See Source »

...point of noticeable deficiency in the offense, however, was the deplorable lack of interference. Mahan was often impeded by the slowness of the shield of men in front of him, and at times he had to abandon his protection in order to elude tacklers from behind. Rollins, too, easily overtook his interference. The interference does not seem to rush with that ferocious charge, which marked the Harvard interference of last year, and often on Saturday a Crimson player instead of plunging into the opposing tackler, would merely try to ward him off from the play. A noticeable exception was Harte...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY VICTORIOUS OVER PENN. STATE | 11/1/1915 | See Source »

...subject for the triangular debate with the Yale and Princeton freshmen will--be: "Resolved, That the United States should abandon the Monroe Doctrine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debating Manager Contest Starts | 3/22/1915 | See Source »

...July 22, no intimation of the coming war had reached them. They arrived in New Zealand on August 13, in the early stages of the war. In spite of the depressing influence of the war, the plan for holding scientific meetings in Wellington and Christ Church was not wholly abandoned, but it was thought best to curtail or abandon altogether most of the social functions which had been included in the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICANS VISIT NEW ZEALAND | 10/23/1914 | See Source »

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