Word: development
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fall on deaf ears as long as a man of mediocre mentality and limited social graces can gain popularity and preferment in the University by virtue of a reputation for athletic ability gained in a preparatory school. He criticizes preparatory schools for angling for good athletes, (or trying to develop them at the expense of their mental and physical health). The same criticism applies with even greater force to the University. His article will be most approciated by that small body of undergraduates who honestly believe a good chemist or economist more valuable to his college than a good drop...
Fielding candidates for the University team will report Monday afternoon to continue the work of last fall. The University battery candidates are practicing in the Cage every day until dark. Among the new men J. A. Gilman '16 is showing an unusual amount of speed and promises to develop into one of the first string pitchers...
Such a team, under the direction of Powers and "Pooch" Donovan. should develop into a consistent winning aggregation...
Coach Sexton is using two devices this year to develop control among the pitchers, a new invention tried out for the first time yesterday, and a system of auto-hypnosis...
...athletic excesses from which American colleges and universities still suffer find an effective corrective in military drill, with results highly beneficial to the individual and immensely serviceable and helpful in the Republic. Such students, if our Government only has the with to utilize existing institutions and develop well-established practices, could be prepared before graduation to qualify as military officers competent to train in time of war our volunteer armies, which in a last resort form the military bulwark of the Republic...