Word: fours
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Seaver, associate director of the Yale gymnasium, who is greatly interested in compulsory physical training, has been inspecting the various systems in use at the leading American universities. In April he will sail for Europe to spend four months inspecting the various gymnasiums and the work that is being done there. On his return he will modify the system in use at Yale as his experiences may justify...
...Yale bicycle squad numbers twenty men, all of whom are making daily runs of fifteen to twenty miles. Eight of these men will represent Yale at the intercollegiate bicycle races, while four will be entered in the dual games with Harvard...
...abandonment of the plan to organize the class crew substitutes into four-oared crews and to maintain them in connection with the class crews is, on the whole, for the benefit of the men who would be in the fours. The coaches would have been forced to neglect them for the eights which are, of course, of the first importance, while now by joining their respective Weld crews, they can get plenty of coaching and at the same time raise the standard of those crews...
...change in the original plans for the spring boating has been made. It has been found inadvisable to keep four substitutes with each of the class crews, thus depriving the Weld eights of their four best candidates, and being at the same time unjust to the men themselves, as the fours if formed could not receive much coaching and would miss the incentive of an important race...
...change was made in the Sophomore boat yesterday, C. Brown taking Lee's place at four. The order of the Freshman eights was also changed yesterday. The order in the two boats is now as follows...