Word: manly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University shooting team will hold a meet with the Middlesex Gun Club, at East Lexington, this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. Each man will shoot at 50 birds thrown at unknown angles...
...this subject, I have tried to find out what is the average amount men pay for their board, and how this price compares with the charges at the training table. From all I can gather, very few men pay more than $7 a week for board, and the average man pays approximately $5. Granted that a man in active competition requires more nourishing food than the inactive man, one concludes that training-table board should be offered for $8 or possibly $9 a week, allowing for a reasonable margin...
...question of training tables has been brought to a head by the statement of a man long connected with college sports, both as a participant and as a graduate manager, that all training tables should be abolished, and by the recent vote of the Athletic Committee not to support or authorize tables for minor sports.--a vote which was later reconsidered. We are certainly at a point in athletics where we must either drop them entirely or do thoroughly what we undertake. This work cannot be limited in scope to the major sports, for taken as a whole the minor...
...hours of practice. To get these conditions the table must differ from the ordinary standard even though the changes are slight. Moreover, it is only fair to the trainer to allow him to watch the men at meals, for in no other way can he surely discover that a man is out of condition. Men have frequently been sent on time trials and injured, simply because the trainer or coach had not had a good opportunity to discover his physical unfitness. The graduate who remarked that careful choice of food and therefore training tables were unnecessary, quite overlooked the fact...
...meal hours, and consequently find the training table the best place in which to discuss plays and rules. At such times men meet upon a totally different basis from that of the athletic field. Friendly criticism and quiet discussion is certainly more effective under these conditions, and here a man is far more ready to act upon a suggestion than when his mind and energy are centred on the actual field work. There are, undoubtedly, many cases where men, naturally extremely shy and retiring in nature, are developed into far more efficient workers by the contact of the training table...