Word: cools
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bicycling, and riding horseback, but if carried to excess they are positively detrimental to the nervous system. This is the great trouble with our athletic clubs and college societies. All sorts of feats are indulged in for personal gratification, for medals, for money. How can a student give that cool, deliberative thought to his books while his mind is fevered with the excitement of the coming regatta, or his dreams are disturbed by visions of victory is the next day's base-ball game? The Hemenway system, as practiced at Harvard, is being successfully introduced in many of the colleges...
...over the same old ground again, but one or two points may perhaps be dwelt on without taxing too much the patience of the reader already exhausted on this topic. The playing of college men with professional teams, although excellent practice, as it teaches them to be cool, to eatch surely and to use their heads, is not absolutely necessary to produce a fine playing nine. Now throwing and catching the ball and good field work may be admirably practised among amateurs without any outside aid, as last years college base-ball record shows, but batting and making safe hits...
Peabody caught and kicked very finely throughout the game, but the best playing on either side was done by Willard, whose judgment and accuracy were remarkable. His play was cool and steady throughout, and the fact that he did not miss a catch or a kick shows how close a game he played. For Yale Dennen played remark-ably well, but barring his work the blue was unquestionably out-played, for had it not been for their advantage in weight our sharp tackling and sure kicking must have added to our score. Our freshmen showed a lack of endurance toward...
...good suggestion in today's issue regarding the heat in the gymnasium basement. There is much inquiry on the part of those who have lockers there when the heat will be turned on; for it is quite dangerous to be obliged to change our clothes in such a cool place. This is simply to strengthen the previous item and to call the attention of the proper authorities to the fact. FIDES...
There is great need of more heat in the gymnasium basement. It is too cool for a heated person to dress...