Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...candidates should make up their minds to out-work their rivals. Other things being equal that team will win which does the hardest and most intelligent work. This is especially true in crew rowing. It is a fact that more than one Harvard team has lost through fear of over training. By beginning early with light work the men can gradually increase the amount with beneficial results and without injury. That is why we invite all likely men to begin training at once...
...Byron Weston. The grounds, a great improvement on the old ones, are sufficiently large to furnish two foot ball fields, and give an excellent chance for base ball. This fall the donor has built a track which, as far as advantages go, will put Williams on an equal footing with her rivals. The track is oblong in shape, fifteen feet wide and a sixth of a mile in circuit. It is very carefully underdrained and is composed of pin gravel covered to a depth of nine inches with cinders. The track is so arranged that the finish of the races...
...this year stooped to her methods, and we sincerely hope that in the future we never shall. Yet it is useless to attempt to cope with her or any other college that uses such means. We prefer not to play foot-ball at all, if we cannot play on equal terms, without jockeying, and without question as to the fairness of our opponents. We therefore withdraw from the association. The future course is left to the discretion of a graduate committee...
...absorbing topic that interests our university is foot ball. The game of last Saturday is talked over and the prospects of success on Thanksgiving day. If the arrangements in the future for the handling of the crowds and preservation of good order, at the big championship games, will only equal those at Springfield, the pleasure of attending the games will be much increased...
Until last year it was always customary to give a short vacation at Thanks-giving time, from Wednesday to Monday, but last fall a change was made and the short vacation was removed and an equal number of days added to the Christmas intermission. The plan gave such satisfaction to the students that it is to be tried again this year...