Word: developes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...games with weak amateur nines or with nines from the smaller colleges. What is most needed now is practice in batting, and this will be well provided as the second nine has an excellent battery. The plan will also furnish the substitutes a chance to play and will develop new men for the team next year. Nothing but the hardest work will enable Harvard to win this year, and every effort in the right direction will be appreciated by all interested in her athletic success...
...disadvantages under which the nine played, not so unsatisfactory as many seem to think. The infield is very weak and the team as a whole bat very poorly, The great advantage of these professional games is to bring out the weak points of the team and especially to develop steadiness of play. The games during the recess have showed, that without incessant hard work we have not the least chance of winning the championship...
...about as good practice for a crew as racing in rubber boots would be for sprint-runners. Barges are only necessary evils, and when a crew has its "form" well fixed, it had better get into a shell at once; until then, racing and rushing only serve to develop more faults, particularly in the case of a freshman crew. Of course, this is merely an opinion, but it is founded on several years' observation and experience in my own class crew, which met with some success; that opinion has also been strengthened by talks with prominent Yale rowing...
Yale has already organized its consolidated baseball team, which is to develop material and give practice to the university club. Last year the club was supported by subscriptions, and paid the subscribers over ten per cent on the value of the stock subscribed...
...that athletics should become a part of the student course, in which proficiency counts as much as success in mathematics or in the languages. At Amherst College athletics are put upon this broad and high basis, and the result is that every Amherst graduate is turned out a well developed young man, with a physical organization which will sustain him in his intellectual work. But the majority of men in middle life today were not brought up on athletics in their youth. They did not ride bicycles or enjoy the activity and spirit of the saddle, and they have never...