Word: developing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well fixed now in the matter of athletic trainers. With George Turner in charge of track sports, Woodruff, the famous Yale oar, at the head of rowing and foot ball, Irwin, the professional, for base ball, the athletic authorities have certainly done all in their power to train and develop available material among the undergraduates. Woodruff is not to take full charge till next fall...
...hour fixed by Captain Wright for exercising every day is 4.15 in the afternoon. Later on the high and broad jumpers and walkers will be separated into squads and as the men develop they may be changed about from one squad to another. While there are not a great many old men back there is some promising matenial in the freshman class and the outlook for a strong team is good...
...dead" water, such as that in a canal is sure to make a crew lack all snap and life, and this has been the trouble with almost all Princeton's crews in the past. No one could ask for a better place than a canal on which to develop a crew's form, but no one could find worse water on which to train a crew to win races, and it is victory, not form that the crew wants...
...ball dinner has served just this purpose. It has afforded a chance for the expression of what men feel ought to be done, and has shown that our single purpose is to bind together firmly all the separate and varied phases of Harvard individuality in one great effort to develop our athletics along the right line. Individuality has there received its fullest expression, and from this our leaders have found the way to secure greater unity. We hope that the foot ball dinner is not to be omitted this year. A slight change could be made advantageously, however...
...plan needed in the schools is practically the Harvard elective system. If children have a liking for a certain line of study they should not be kept from it. All can do the same amount of work as now, and at the same time have the opportunity to develop their particular abilities...