Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University of any of the University games with the exception that for the large games placards may be placed on cars running to the place of the contest. The position taken by the Committee was that the University games are for members of the University and that any effort to solicit other attendance by advertising is undignified. The exception was made on the ground that the placards on the cars to be used by those going to the game would serve as a means of information, rather than advertising...
...hours a week on alternate days, it has been increasingly difficult to fill the afternoon hours. In 1891-2, a third afternoon hour was added with a view to giving greater weight to the afternoon schedule. The arrangement then made is substantially that in force today. But despite this effort to balance the schedule, the morning hours have become more and more crowded, both as regards number of courses and number of students taking the courses. Thus during the present year, the ratio between the average number of courses in the morning hours and the average number in the afternoon...
...used in making it, restricts its use to the few colleges--and institutions which can afford the necessary apparatus. Other objections are the great strain brought to bear in the lifting tests upon small groups of muscles, and the increased blood pressure caused by holding the breath during the effort of lifting. An even more serious objection to the present test is that it does not try the heart and lungs sufficiently to afford a good trial of endurance...
...object of eligibility rules is to promote equality among college teams, to discourage unfair practices and to hold players up to reasonable scholarship. The rules ought to be made by intercollegiate agreement in order that the interpretation and practice may be the same. Every effort should be directed toward the conservation of those sports which promote manliness, character, and courtesy. All the elements which have a tendency to make of sport a business should be kept out, but, on the other hand, there should not be too much regulation...
Proposals have been received from New York University and the University of Pennsylvania for dual gymnastic competitions to be held this winter. As the interest in this branch of sport has become very slight, no effort can be made to form an organized team unless enough men come out to ensure competition for the various places. If sufficient interest is shown, however, Mr. Dohs will undertake a systematic course of training with a view to forming a regular team, and will be at the Gymnasium every afternoon from 4 till 6 o'clock to instruct...