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Dates: during 1900-1909
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During the first mile of the race the men kept well together and neither team seemed to have an advantage. During the second mile, however, Mills began to get a lead over the rest of the men, which he gradually increased during the remainder of the race. Gallagher, Hall and Pownall moved well up to the front, and Clark changed his position from ninth to seventh. In the last two miles the positions of the first three men remained unchanged. At the finish, with the exception of an exciting contest for third, fourth and fifth places, the men were well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Wins Run with M. I. T. | 12/16/1901 | See Source »

...system was adopted under which an effort was made to return to simpler methods. There were fewer plays, fewer formations, fewer signals, shorter hours for practice, and a determined effort was made to get rid of the injuries by analysis of the causes which led up to them and eliminating the dangerous methods. In pursuance of this policy there was no playing after dark, no playing on frozen ground, and care was taken to watch the individual players and not play them when they were becoming fatigued. In the first four years the result of this policy was only partially...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIEW OF FOOTBALL. | 12/11/1901 | See Source »

...get at the beginning of the present general interest in rowing, we must go back several years before this period to the time when Mr. George W. Weld gave the boat house for the Weld Club, and Mr. W. S. Youngman persuaded many men to join the Club and to row, and finally succeeded in proving to the lofty ones at the University Boat House that there were other men in College who could row, thus greatly increasing the element of competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RECORD IN ROWING. | 12/10/1901 | See Source »

...crew was a clumsy one; the men were strong and willing, but lacked finish. They were never able to get thoroughly well together, or to row the boat steady, and consequently never got the speed they should have had. Nevertheless, they were even with Yale at 3 3-4 miles and were beaten out at the finish only after a desperate race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RECORD IN ROWING. | 12/10/1901 | See Source »

...German could not go to the opera two or three times a week, he would feel that he was losing one of the greatest enjoyments in life. It is a well known truth of art as well as politics, that what the people earnestly and persistently want, that they get. The continental people have permanent opera because the intellectual and imaginative parts of their nature cannot live without it; they insist upon having...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 12/3/1901 | See Source »

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