Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Whether or not the management will see fit to adept this innovation is as yet undecided...
...total of 780 yards per man. Van Brunt started the race for Harvard and followed closely behind Kirjassoff of Yale until the sixth lap, when his strength gave out and he fell fifty yards from the finish. It was evident early in the race that he was not in fit condition for so long a distance and that a substitute should have run in his stead. He showed great pluck, however, and after falling managed to totter to the finish, where he was relieved by Haskell. Haskell started over half a lap behind Spitzer and finished with a slightly wider...
...Saturday night the University relay team, one of the strongest that ever represented Harvard, met defeat at the hands of a Yale team, simply because the fact was blindly ignored that a good runner out of condition is not so efficient as a less able one who is physically fit. Coach Lothrop was directly responsible for an error in judgment, Captain Dodge indirectly so, because he was not on hand to oversee the team. The material was there, but the foresight and headwork were lacking. In this respect Yale was superior, and we do not wish to belittle her victory...
...advisory coaches. The members of the committee are expected to be present on the field as often as possible, and at least twice in each week. They will have the right to enforce upon the head coach a hearing of any criticism or advice which they may see fit to offer; and they are to be present at coaches meetings, at the option of the head coach. Any vacancy in the committee is to be filled by vote of the surviving members...
...show other men that they too have a call. That great failure in leadership, Napoleon Bonaparte, had the fault that he saw only his own star of destiny, and there came a time when other men failed to see that star. Men of vocation, to use their power must fit in with other men of vocation. The alliance of Wash- ington and Hamilton: of Lincoln with the members of his cabinet-all men with a strong sense of duty-show that this working together is possible and, for success, is imperative. The true leader must be in correspondence with...