Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...knowledge of the game and the average strength and efficiency of players the country over have increased with such rapidity that any game, even the first, may be a hard one. The men are both safer physically and better students, as well as better football players for a preliminary period of training and practice. The minor faults may be summed up as follows: 1. Failure to provide for the individual conditioning of the men before they reported for practice. 2. Allowing one coach to have all the work of developing the team in a short time. 3. Coincident limitation...
...Pennsylvania team has recovered entirely from the great slump which it fell into for a short period in the midseason, and has lately been playing in a way to make it highly probable that today's contest will be close and interesting...
...prescribed course in gymnastics for freshmen at Yale will begin on Wednesday. The work will consist of class drills on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 2 to 2.45. An option is offered of attendance four times per week, during the day, each period to be thirty minutes long. Members of the class who are in training for any team or crew will be excused from attendance upon presentation of a written statement from the captain of the team for which the training is done. This exemption applies only during the period of actual training...
...class football teams have now been practicing for a period of over three weeks in preparation for the class championship series next week. The Senior and Junior elevens are both fully up the average standard for class teams, but the Sophomores are not yet well shaken together. The Junior team is perhaps the most advanced of any, by reason of having a good second eleven to practice against every day, besides having had outside games. A large number of the men now on the team were out last year and may be called experienced. The team shows good spirit...
...acquisitions of the Fogg Museum are three original paintings which were presented by Mr. Forbes. One of them is a portrait of a man by Tintoretto, the subject of which is unknown. There is an early Italian Madonna of the Fifteenth Century, and another unidentified picture of the same period belonging to the Italian or Flemish school. In the collection of antiquities on the first floor of the Museum are two new objects, a vase, and a fragment of a head which are both by Greek artists. The prints of Turner's "Liber Studiorum" and the collection of engravings...