Word: following
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mott Haven team, and today the activity will be increased by the arrival of the candidates for the freshman nine. The men are all going into the work with a good deal of spirit. In the class crews the enthusiasm as shown by the number of men, seems to follow a law of inverse proportion to the order of the classes. This is only natural, as the older a class gets, the better the rowing material becomes known; the new men get more and more weeded out, and the places in the boat become more settled. This decreasing ratio does...
...were put to work in the tank yesterday for the first time since it was remodeled. The test shows that the tank is much improved over any previous year, and it is hoped that much more satisfactory results will follow. Heretofore, the crew has received little or no benefit from the tank work...
...Free ship" method is practical and immediate. - (a) Free ships would save us $140,000,000 yearly. - (b) Would stimulate our ship yards. - (c) The example of Norway and Germany a wise one to follow. - (d) The carrying trade employs fifty times more men than the shipbuilding industry; Kelley, p. 31. - (e) With "free ships" we should rival England on the sea; Atlantic Mon., vol. 47, p. 174. - (f) Free ships would stimulate American invention, in building and handling ships...
...reproof or a challenge. Then it is the place of every Harvard man to be able to stand up and defend the actions of his university against outside attacks. But in order to do this he must know the ground on which he is standing. He ought to follow closely, not only the actions of athletic committees, but also of the governing boards of the university...
...they are weakest. The need of good exercise is the cause of much of the danger of a university life. What could be a better preparation for morality and health and success than the hour's exercise on Jarvis and the hot and cold shower and rub down that follow? Three months of it can easily add twenty pounds to a man's physique, and 10 per cent. to his examination marks, and 50 percent. to his manly self-respect and ability to use his common sense. The game is an education itself for it gives a man "certain necessary...