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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Athletic authorities at Yale have expressed emphatic disapproval of the agreement that fixes September 15 as the starting date for football training. These critics declare that the long list of injured players that hampered the development of the Blue gridiron machine was due to the brief period allowed for proper conditioning. It is felt that when such gruelling tests as the Dartmouth game come so early in the fall, a longer period of time should be allotted to get the players into fit condition to meet the ordeal of battle...
...Negotiations were begun with President Poincare of France, a hot jingoist for a war to regain Alsace-Lorraine, and plans were laid for a sweeping continental war. Poincare's correspondence of this period shows this. Austria had aims in the Balkans, and as these conflicted with Russian plans, and irritated Serbia, the Balkans were the logical seat...
...cents for table d'hote luncheon and dinner with a choice of main course. "Specials" similar to those served in the Freshman Dining Halls and the Union should also be available at additional cost. There should be reduced rates for men "signing on" in advance for longer periods: $11 per week and $40 per four-week period are suggested as fair adjustments. Students should be allowed to pay cash or charge their meals on term-bills as they prefer...
...There should be an adequate period of hard training to prepare the players for the hurts that will come early in the year, and which may later be avoided. Under the present agreement a scant ten days or two weeks remain between the opening of training and the first game. This year, for example, we played Geneva, a veteran team with a month's training behind it, in our first game after a very short training period. We were beaten, clearly outclassed, and overcome by a better-conditioned eleven...
...days when she was a New England and Boston institution, that is, the days of Emerson. Lowell, and their contemporaries. He was the most brilliant successor of William Ellery Channing, the greatest minister of his time, whose religious doctrines exercised untold influence at Cambridge during the same period. His heritage was the heritage of liberalism...