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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week has been greatly upset by the lack of good rowing conditions on the Basin, a fact which has kept the coaches from carrying out the plans which they had made. Long paddles up-river with short, hard spurts at a high stroke, have, however, enabled the coaches to correct faults in from which might not have been defected in the usual practice...
...should receive the hearty commendation of every advocate of "Big Three" amity. And it is to further this move for mutual friendship and understanding between these intellectual centers that I perpetrate this eulogy. Some of my best friends are at Harvard, and on that account I want to correct certain false impressions about these collegians...
...will notice that nothing in the rule is said whether or not the ball can be caught by one of the jumpers but the correct interpretation is that it is possible and legal for either of two jumpers to catch the ball "after it has been tapped" and before it touches the floor or another player. Should a batted ball land in the basket, it counts as a goal scored...
Crowded into ten weeks, the football player intensively develops accurate powers of observation, correct deductions, self-analysis, self-control, the ability to instantly execute, his mental conclusions, and many other factors which could not be developed at any such rate unless the factor of incentive, such as we find during the hours of competitive play on the football field,--existed. He further perfects the control of mind over muscle and nerves. On the physical side, the football players develops in a perfectly normal way every single muscle which he uses in every day life and in almost exactly the manner...
...noticed that Bill Bingham in a recent article on "Track Athletics" ventured the opinion that "a sound body was as essential as a sound mind." I think I am correct when I go much further and say that a sound body is the very foundation of human existence. The sound mind is all right, but its degree of efficiency depends absolutely upon the condition of the human frame in which it is housed...