Word: outdoors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sprinters will take their practice on the outdoor board track with the distance and relay men, while the candidates for the field events will work out in the baseball cage. Men are needed particularly for the pole-vault, broad and high jumps, and in the weight events there is an unusually small amount of material...
...most important objects of compulsory physical training is to interest Freshmen in some form of outdoor sport. Exercise in a gymnasium is good, but is does not fill the place of a competitive game played in the open air. Mere development of the muscles during one year is not what is wanted; a real interest must be aroused so that men will regard their exercise not as an unpleasant task required of them, but as a real pleasure which they will continue throughout their college course...
...only flaw in the system, as we see it, is that nearly one-third of the men are taking indoor exercise. If all Freshmen were required to partake in outdoor sports during the autumn and spring months, and during the winter months only were permitted the alternative of gymnasium work, then the dangers of their confining themselves entirely to the gymnasium would be obviated...
Owing to the heavy wind the University crews did not row yesterday, but hereafter A, B, and C will be on the river regularly as long as the weather permits outdoor rowing. From present indications this will mean about two weeks more practice for the crews that are still rowing...
...selection of the successful candidates from each state will be made by a committee constituted for that purpose. The choice is made on the basis of a man's record in college according to the four points outlined in the Rhodes will: (1) scholarship, (2) character, (3) interest in outdoor sports, (4) interest in one's fellow, and instincts for leadership. Of these qualifications the greatest emphasis is laid upon the first...