Word: failings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...personal characteristic, as a walk or a laugh. It follows everywhere. It cuts off a man in a moment from all his friends, picks off the best and the greatest But it is hard to conted with for there is no one to blame or applaud if you fail or succeed against...
...work and close the season, showing the college what might have been done if they had more prudence and foresight. Such a method of training is unscientific as it is discreditable to each individual member of the nine. Those who have watched the work of the Ninety-six cannot fail to notice this same unfortunate tendency. The men do not seem to realize the final test which they will be called upon to make, or else their idea of the responsibility of representing their college must be a very low one. Ninety-six starts out with bright prospects...
...Yale, only that the English oarsmen take considerably more road work which may be accounted for by the fact that they also take a much larger quantity of ale, which necessitates additional work. I have paid much attention to the coaching system in practice at New Haven, and I fail to see any system better than that employed at Yale. While Mr. Cook makes no claim to originality he has nevertheless improved on the English stroke, which he introduced in this country several years ago. To my mind the Yale oarsmen pay a trifle more attention to form than...
This year there is no boat that can possibly be borrowed and a new shell, or asked for the class last fail has to be paid for. With the ordinary amount of money collected for a class crew it will be impossible both to buy the boat, and to send the crew to the training table...
...hall. At present there are two hundred men on the waiting list, a state of affairs entirely without precedence for this time of the year; this, too, with the general tables crowded to their utmost. If, then, the college is to furnish boarding accommodations to the students, it cannot fail to see that another dining hall is an imperative necessity...