Word: even
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...distributed by wise charitable organizations. From the collection made last May over thirteen barrels of wearable clothes were distributed among the needy in Boston and Cambridge. As the students have now become accustomed to looking forward to the collections it is hoped that these results this year may be even larger than before...
...eights were out together yesterday for the first time. A new set of oars from Shaw arrived and were used by Captain Goodrich's crew. Several practice starts were taken by both crews together. These starts were very even as a rule, but Perkins's crew had a longer swing and were faster and cleaner with their hands...
...giving Faculty assistance to the debaters is carried to its extreme. Their Faculty members may not only furnish references to works on the subject chosen and give material and information, but may criticize the speeches of the debaters, change and amend their arguments and general plan of debate, and even select a team of Faculty members to actually debate with the student team, and lecture to them on the subject chosen for debate. Yale graduates, not connected with the university, who have become authorities on the question for discussion, may also come to New Haven and coach for as long...
Others think the first eleven should have been chosen earlier, kept more distinct from the second eleven, and drilled for a longer time in team work. The evenness with which many of the candidates were matched and the many injuries to prominent players made the choice of a first eleven difficult; and while it does seem as if it would be better to choose a first eleven earlier and to give them constant care and training as a team, even at the expense of a possible minor mistake in the first choice, yet this question can also best be left...
...Princeton a practice of strengthening the ankles and knees of each member of the eleven by adhesive plaster or elastic bands, even in ordinary daily practice, is very successful and might well be tried here. It takes time and cannot of course wholly prevent sprains or wrenched knees, but it makes the chances of serious injury very small...