Word: friction
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...like and entirely out of harmony with Yale's great moral purpose to purify athletics. All this internal disorder shows beyond question that an intercollegiate athletic league composed of more than two members cannot live in peace and harmony. There will be combinations and wire-pulling and compromise and friction as long as two or three can unite to overwhelm a third or fourth; it will be politics instead of athletics, treason and hatred instead of loyalty and good feeling...
...plant of the CRIMSON has been very much enlarged this year and improvements have been made in various departments which have practically reduced the friction of the work to a minimum. In the first place, the papers, which have hitherto been printed in Cambridgeport, are now printed on the premises. This will enable us to get all the news, no matter how late it comes in and will also help us in having the papers promptly delivered. Our mailing to out-of-town subscribers will be done at 3.45 each morning, which will get the papers to their destination...
...eight-oared friction machine in which all the oars are connected, so that it can only be used by an entire crew. The other is a single machine with an oar on either side, which will be used for individual coaching...
...general tables at Memorial have been watching the experiment with the keenest interest. The success of the plan is earnestly hoped for by the Board of Directors and college authorities, for it means the solution of a very difficult question for both. The plan worked without any appreciable friction until the adoption of the rule requiring men who eat at the general tables to get a check from the Auditor before each meal. The very first time this rule was put in operation it received a severe test, and like all new things did not work with entire smoothness...
...been worked out yet, and probably very little can be known this year of the exact character of the new scheme. But the directors will devote considerable time before fall to preparing the details of the plan, and hope to begin the year with as much absence of friction as usual. It is estimated that the new plan will accommodate from three hundred to five hundred more men than are in the hall at present...