Word: development
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...scrimmage during the past week has served to round the men into excellent form and to the develop the team into an efficient football machine. Although the practice yesterday afternoon was light, the first accident of the year occurred when Woods, the regular left tackle, twisted his ankle. His place will be taken by Cheney in the game today...
...greater lengths of extravagance and absurdity. For this reason it has been felt by your committee that ultimately the suggestion must be seriously considered that in time all payment of salaries to coaches of Yale athletics should cease, and unless Yale can from her own resources, graduate and undergraduate, develop her teams without such artificial stimulants, so that she can reasonably compete with her rivals, it would be best to eliminate intercollegiate athletics altogether until the dawn of an era of reasonableness in such things...
...system of fifty years ago. However, are not these courses in composition and comparative literature giving this mass of men whose minds are filled with commercial, non-literary ideas, an appreciation of the great literary literary productions? IT such courses succeed in doing only this, and fail to develop scores of authors, they still do a great and difficult work. Although authors are valued more highly than literary critics, if a college training can mould the average American undergraduate into merely a literary critic, it is unquestionably successful...
Although it is too early to prophecy in very certain terme, prospects for a good cross-country team appear fairly bright. Coach Shrubb has at his disposal quite a large amount of seasoned material and his chief task will be to develop runners capable of keeping pace with the stars of other colleges...
...There is no disguising the fact that the linemen are not up to the ordinary. Taft may develop into a fine tackle and the chances are that he will, but he probably will be developed rather late in the season...