Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plainly than in the small number of men who have responded to the call for football candidates. At Yale the total number who came out was nine--not men enough for one team, not to mention the necessary sub-elevens. In other colleges this same scarcity of men for major athletics has been constantly experienced...
Again, with no major teams to monopolize their time, the coaches can devote their attention to all those who come out for physical development. The coaches are on hand from two to five o'clock every afternoon, and they are glad to direct the athletic work of those who can report for it. Hence, the opportunity is present for each member of a unit in Harvard University to make himself physically fit,--to do that is a duty encumbrant upon every man who desires to serve his country most efficiently. It is the physical development of the men in general...
...university team at Yale this year it will probably be composed of the best players of these two teams. Professor R. N. Corwin, head of the Athletic Committee and captain of the Yale eleven in 1880, will be in charge of the football work this fall, co-operating with Major Samuel Weldon, commandant of the S. A. T. C. No coach has yet been appointed, but J. C. Mack, trainer of the track team for the past few years, and who has also trained football elevens, is still in the employ of Yale University, and will look after the conditioning...
...Naval Unit, has been appointed professor of Naval Science and Tactics; M. O. Hudson, of the University of Missouri, has been obtained as a lecturer in law for the current year; W. C. Sabine, who has been acting director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory during the absence of Major Theodore Lyman, has resigned, and Professor E. H. Hall has been appointed to fill the vacancy; Professor Arthur Pope is to serve as acting director of the Fogg Art Museum, until E. W. Forbes, the director, returns from government service; C. A. Adams has been appointed...
...division back from as disagreeable a month of retreating as ever I hope to see. As a matter of fact, I believe sincerely we all shall not see again a retreat coming our way. This morning, too, comes a continuingly excellent French communique. In the little villages having Major du cantonnement (and that means any village where troops are quartered), there is usually a wall, or house-side, whereon are posted the telephoned reports, two, three or more times a day. There is a bit of coping above to save, the paper from rain and before it gather the motley...