Word: developing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...daily for about three quarters of an hour in the rowing room, take dumb-bell work and exercise on the chest weights with a short run up North Avenue. Ex-captain Perkins is coaching the men and this preliminary work is sure to develop some good material...
...game is encouraging. We are beginning to feel the effects of a study of football that is in the best sense scientific. It does not rely upon individual play or upon the experience of a single year, but it seeks to grasp the principles of the game and to develop them from year to year. This has been the secret of Yale's power. She always has brilliant individual players but it is to her traditions, to the atmosphere, of to speak, in which her men are trained, that she looks for victory. Until a few years ago this spirit...
...Harvard had two new guards to find while Yale had none. This year, on the other hand, Harvard had only a new guard and a centre to find for her line, while Yale had to find two new guards and an end; behind the line Harvard has had to develop a new quarter-back, half, and full-back, and Yale has had to bring out men for just the same positions, and it is a curious fact that in order to fill the quarter-back's position the full-backs of last year are the quarter-backs of this...
...Fine Arts Museum were really in process of construction, voluntary contributions toward its maintainance and for the enlargement of the work of the Department would be forthcoming if efforts were directed in the proper channels. If our Fine Arts Department most remain small for lack of funds necessary to develop it, would it not be better to have at least the satisfaction of an appropriate building, even though its outfit for a few years must remain very incomplete? A pinched department is certainly not the most desirable kind of a department to have, but it is a question...
...produces an effect on the alimentary canal which surely cannot aid the digestion, when the ordinary peristaltic motion is surely insufficient. More than any other athletic exertion, the walk produces vomiting, so it is not conducive to more bodily soundness. What is more, walking does not develop the body for its best efficiency. Other events exercise the muscles employed in the normal and rational activities, such as leaping ditches, hurdling fences and running at full speed. So the walk is proved ugly, "because it is unnatural and perversive of the proper functions of the body...