Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...system of graduate coaching, two Yale graduates have been appointed to take charge of the team. They are Carter, the well-known pitcher, and G. Case, who captained a Yale nine in the early 90s. Mr. Camp will act as advisory coach to the team. The plan is to approach as nearly as possible to the Yale coaching system as applied to football, and constitutes a reversion from the practice of employing a professional coach followed during the past four seasons...
...West Point game of previous years and marks a turning point in the football season. Up to this time the weakness of our opponents has allowed the coaches to try out a large number of men, but from now on the eleven will gradually assume shape and begin to approach in team play the skill which characterizes certain individuals. Needless to say this game will be watched with great interest for its bearing on the ultimate prospects of the season; but, whatever the score may be, the contest is not likely to be one-sided. The Harvard team...
...even indirectly that the rights and privileges of the gentlemen who officiate there are not indeed supreme and absolute. But I should wish to offer a single suggestion: that if their bearing toward the noisome student who infests their domain should ever by any cataclysmic regeneration of their nature approach a reasonable condescension as its limit, the approach should be very gradual, so that we might be able, by great effort, to adjust ourselves to such a revolutionary change in the life of the Harvard student as this regeneration would cause...
...Desert Wanderings," the eighth of the "Travel Papers of Arminius," is disappointing. Perhaps the earlier papers of the series have raised our expectations too high, but this instalment certainly lacks the freshness of the earlier numbers. The workmanship, too, is careless in places, and suggests the approach of the end of the year. "We had reached the Fayoum after a long day's travel over the desert the night before," would hardly be expected on an entrance examination. D. Carb's "Ellen Terry" is a thoughtful and well-written appreciation, and R. Altrocchi's "Vaudeville" an excellent bit of satire...
...account of the approach of spring weather it has been decided to discontinue the Sunday afternoon gatherings in Phillips Brooks House for the rest of the year...