Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have taken part in the contests of past years have been seriously injured thereby. Nevertheless the strain is a very severe one, greater than in any other of our College contests, and many men have, I know, felt the effects of it for a very considerable period...
During the period of five years just ended, Harvard proved her superiority on the track by defeating Yale three times, and last year by winning the Mott Haven games. There seems to be no logical reason why Harvard track teams should not more than hold their own in the future. The successes of the last five years were not brought about in a haphazard way; they were not "lucky" successes, but the result of careful study and experimenting. It may safely be said now that the methods of training Harvard track teams are well systematized and that there will...
Although Harvard won a majority of the last five meets with Yale, the period did not pass without teaching its lessons. In '97 the team which went to New Haven was overwhelmingly defeated, principally because it was out of condition on account of having competed with the University of Pennsylvania one week before. Since that year it has been Harvard's policy to hold only two sets of out-door games previous to the meet with Yale,--the Class Championships and the 'Varsity games. In '98, '99, 1900 and 1901 every man entered the dual games in prime condition...
...unsatisfactory feature of this period lay in the fact that the Harvard team did not do as well in its final game as its previous record would justify people to expect. The team after an almost unbroken record of excellent play, would come to their final game and disappoint their adherents. On the whole, the system may be said to have proved itself a distinct step in advance of the previous system, but it also showed that something was lacking which should be supplied before Harvard realized the fullest results from their system...
...five years covered by the agreement with Yale mark what has probably been the most important period in Harvard's rowing history. Previous to 1897 a number of different methods and systems had been followed, and the result as everybody well knows, was far from satisfactory. At the beginning of the autumn of 1896 Mr. R. C. Lehmann was invited to come to America and supervise the coaching of Harvard rowing. This he kindly and generously consented to do. On his arrival he set to work to change the style, so that it should conform to what was generally considered...