Word: developing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...games with the University, Yale's oarsmen and ball players are devoting themselves to vigorous preparation for these events. The rowing squad has already taken up its headquarters at Gale's Ferry, while the baseball men, spurred on by their defeat by Princeton last Saturday, are trying hard to develop a smooth-working and powerful combination...
...faculty and institution of a university are for but one purpose--the mental and physical development of the students. But although they can help, the main test lies with the student himself." He then went on to say that statistics compiled by the faculty have shown that the attainment of scholarship in the Graduate Schools corresponds directly with that obtained by men while undergraduates in the University. President Lowell ended by pointing out that if a man puts his best into his studies and also into his outside activities the former will take less tme, and will increase in standard...
...line-up of his team, as the men have been working very well together this spring, and there is no need to risk a shake-up. With victories over Watertown, Cambridge Latin School, Groton, and Dean, and a 4 to 4 tie with Andover, the 1922 nine promises to develop into a powerful combination...
...corps tended to divide the leaders from the led. The permanent installation of tested men in the positions of company commander and first sergeant afforded opportunity for each sixty men to be placed under the careful observation of two trained cadets who could discover their individual ability, develop each man to the highest extent of which he was capable, and report to his superiors at stated intervals upon the progress made by each candidate and his fitness for further training at one of the Government...
This happy situation makes it all too easy for us to forget that the country needs us in peace just as urgently as in war. The service required is more natural and normal, perhaps, than it was, but still it is service. By developing ourselves to the utmost of our capacity, and along lines in which we are best fitted to serve, we are doing our bit toward the development of the nation. The fight to develop the student body is the fight for which colleges exist. Even during the normal reaction from actual war it cannot be lost sight...