Word: drills
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...doubt that Harvard has the material for winning teams. The experience of last year's eleven showed that. All that is needed is for every man to go into some branch of athletics, and master the first principles, so that captains will not be obliged to drill absolutely raw recruits. When teams can be selected from experienced men, Harvard may look with confidence for victory. The united efforts of graduates, undergraduates and faculty are needed to inspire this general interest to bring it to a practical benefit. Such encouragement and advice as are offered in Mr. Goodwin...
...captain Herrick has been coaching. The crew will go on the river in a few days and to a training table early in April. The launch will be got out about the first of April. For the past week the rowing has been done in the gymnasium. The drill has been entirely on the elementary principles of using the bodies and slides. From this time on there will be more attention paid to the finer points of body-work and watermanship. Since the speed of a crew depends on its mastery of details, the progress of it can best...
...redeeming features; her songs were well rendered and her gracefulness received its due applause. Mr. Joseph W. Herbert as court jester amused the audience a good deal, but his drollery was far from being refined. The female fencers went through their exercises in a very creditable manner, and the drill of of the lansquenets in the last act was exceedingly effective...
...hired several professional players for the coming season. The college supports no crews but recalls with pride the year when Amberst won a race from both Harvard and Yale; the shell in which that race was rowed, now almost in splinters, is placed as a memento in the drill hall of the Agricultural college. The Athletic association numbers among its members many men well-known at the Mott Haven games, A large team will be sent to Boston to take part in the B. A. A. meeting in Mechanics Hall during the present month. The record of the foot-ball...
...last three weeks the freshman nine has been exercising regularly in the gymnasium under the direction of Captain Linn of the 'varsity nine. They first practice stopping grounders, throwing at a mark and base running. They then drill in squads under the supervision of Trafford, Frothingham, and Ayer respectively, go through the chest-weight and dumb bell movements and run around the track five times...