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...Naismith, head of the department of physical education at the University of Kansas, has announced statistics compiled after extended correspondence with former athletes. In securing his figures Dr. Naismith sent inquiries to football players on teams prior to 1907, believing these men should by this time be able to detect any after-effects of the game. The questions were sent to football men as that game, he considered, is the most violent of college sports. To the question, "What injuries did you suffer while playing football?" 40 of the 85 replies stated that they had received none. The other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL LEAVES NO BAD AFTER-EFFECTS | 1/27/1917 | See Source »

...Clark clinging to his chosen form--unrhymed and at times unrhythmical verse. "Spring" is sincere, sensitive, and despite its form truly poetic. "Soul of Man" is more incoherent and, I suppose, more completely "modern"--a riot of rich color, with no composition which the ordinary uninitiated reader can detect. Mr. Denison is modern in form only; in all other respects his "Dusk" is a very conventional piece of description...

Author: By F. SCHENCK ., | Title: "Advocate is Doing its Job" | 2/26/1916 | See Source »

...Except perhaps that it lays more emphasis on the construction of plays and less on the development of histrionic talent, the "47 Workshop" is very similar in purpose to the Dramatic Club. It is a trying out place for the best plays written for English 47, a place to detect those weaknesses of a play which are brought out only by an adequate performance. The audience is especially selected with a view to the value of its critical judgment, and each member is asked to submit a criticism in order that the play may be rewritten in the light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DRAMA AT HARVARD. | 5/8/1913 | See Source »

...stroke at 34, and, though the freshmen spurted to 38 at intervals, won by several lengths. No time was given out. There were no changes in the orders of the crews. Coach Kennedy is continuing to give his men the benefit of long rows, finding that thus he can detect the weak points in the crews. There will be little morning practice until examinations are over tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Crew Defeated Freshmen | 6/12/1911 | See Source »

...tongue so affected by some writers. A weak tale is all the worse for being put into queer speech, and a good one is not bettered. It is possible that the two specimens of dialect in the present number are masterpieces, but it would take a keen judgment to detect the fact...

Author: By F. C. De sumichrast., | Title: Review of March Number of Monthly | 3/13/1909 | See Source »

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