Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Field have been reserved for the use of men in the Freshman class every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons. Swimming also can be elected by those who do not know how to swim, or cannot swim well, but this form of exercise for Freshmen is discouraged, in favor of outdoor activities...
Though the team has been severely handicapped by the late spring, and has not been able to get in any outdoor practice, the men have been playing regularly in the indoor courts at Longwood. A well-balanced organization, especially strong in doubles has developed rapidly in the past few weeks of practice. Special emphasis has been laid on the formation of strong doubles Combinations. There are no brilliant individual stars on the team, which however, is steady and well balanced...
This side-stepping of our individual system from the life which nature intended on the one hand--the outdoor life of war and hunting, building and making things--and from the life of art and science on the other, through its failure to provide for the average human being any adequate expression of the artistic or creative instincts, constitutes the greatest tragedy and the great problem of our modern civilization...
...practice game held at Middlesex on Saturday the University second baseball team was defeated by the score of 6-3. Both teams showed the lack of outdoor practice, and although there was little to choose between the batting of the two teams the school boys' hits were more timely...
Harvard University, whose tradition is to strive fiercely toward eminence in athletics, has installed a new director of outdoor sports, Dr. Charles Whelan, who proposes to surround his track team, in their track room at Soldiers Field, with photographs of star Yale and Princeton athletes of the past, alongside photographs of former Harvard captains. An elaborate motion picture equipment has been provided for use in the field, to show contrasting achievements of various teams and individuals. Three mirrors are to be bought, one set upon rollers and used at practice to show "form" and another anchored at a certain spot...