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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most other sports here in that the time given to practice and training of necessity far outweighs that occupied in actual competition. It is consequently in rowing that the most highly developed system of coaching exists. The best oars in the college boat club divide up the various crews among them and each carries, insofar as is possible, the same boat through the particular training period in question. On the whole the system works very well. The veteran oarsmen usually know the fundamentals of rowing, as traditionally taught in their college, pretty thoroughly and attain a large measure of success...
Yale's 1929 eleven will trot out on to the Stadium turf this afternoon a slight favorite over Captain Barrett's Crimson-jerseyed gridiron cohorts. The basis for the Eli's supposed superiority is rather a comparison of previous records than any firm conviction among Yale rooters that the New Haven contingent is actually much stronger than the Cambridge outfit...
What a first team backfield that would be! Among them there's not a thing in the game of football that Booth, Marsters, Cagle and Murrel can't do and do it well. You couldn't do a great deal better if you had the whole country as a field to choose from...
...popular screen musical comedy called "Sunny Side Up," which thanks to the engaging presence of Miss Jane Gaynor and several effective DeSylva-Brown-Henderson tunnes is Among the current Broadway successes introduces as many withouit recourse to backstage or college What pases for its plot includes episoedes at a block party in New York's East Side and a charity show at Southampton and the principals and choruses can indulge themselves in song and dance for all they are worth at both affairs...
...Christmas time. Construction on the $2,000,000 laboratory and clinic adjoining it on the hospital grounds has been started. Plans for the Institute of Human Relations building, to cost $2,000,000 have been completed, and it is hoped the building will be ready in about fifteen months. Among the unique architectural features of the Institute, which is to be a center for research in biology and sociology at Yale, are a residential unit for the study of child development, a residential and treatment unit for the study of mental efficiency and mental diseases, modern laboratories for psychological investigations...