Word: developing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last two years we have learned many things--first and foremost that in order to assure the success of a track team it is necessary to develop not stars but a large body of runners, taking men who perhaps have never run before and, overcoming their initial discouragements, bring before them the motto of the Harvard track team--Progress. You fellows have got the spirit that can't be beaten; you've got good material; and you've got a first rate coach. I am looking forward to a winning team this year...
...Martin, the next speaker, said that it would be his policy to develop teams not stars and to follow the system laid down by the past authorities...
...responsibility rests on the man and depends on his character; the university is helpless against his will. He can partake of, the various college activities, including courses, and by coordinating them, develop himself into an intellectual unity with true depth of character. Or he can sit back and worship "the American god of mediocrity" without thinking or acting for himself or by himself. The most unfortunate part is that when he graduates after four years of the second sort, and he is almost sure to, he will be a "typical college...
...held five times a week instead of three, and with many candidates expected to report for the University team on Monday the Freshman hours will be restricted from 3 to 5 o'clock, and the University hours from 4 to 6 o'clock. The yearlings are beginning to develop rapidly under the instruction of Coach Judson, and there is every prospect of a strong squad from which to pick a team. In order to form a more accurate opinion of the different men a series of exhibition bouts will be staged some time before the holidays. The system employed last...
...swords team is not so satisfactorily situated, since this department of fencing requires far more experience and training than work with the foils. Shearn and Watson are at present the only men with any degree of skill with the swords, so that Coach Danguy's gravest problem is to develop more men for this team. After the Christmas recess the swordsmen will hold part time practice with the Boston Athletic Association squad, but the foilsmen will work only at the Hemenway Gymnasium...