Word: pick
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...easy for us to pick up a newspaper and learn just what is going on at any one moment, that we are prone not to take the trouble to develope real interest in large affairs. Twenty years hence, perhaps, when we are reading an interesting history of China, we may regret our indifference. History is being made next door, yet the interests of many of us are little more than wide enough to contain the football "dope" of the hour...
...system of voluntary physical examinations it is very largely the men who need to be examined least who, through eligibility for a crew or a team, take advantage of the opportunity. If physical examination were made compulsory for the whole Freshman class it would enable the Physical Director to pick out all the men who are undeveloped and to advise them to take a certain form of exercise, while men in good physical condition could know at the very beginning of their course for what form of exercise they were best fitted...
...number of men who reported for graded crew work yesterday was hardly sufficient to form one crew. Today every man who rowed in the inter-dormitory series is expected to report at his boat-house at 3.30 o'clock, as there is only two weeks in which to pick and train the crews. There will be as many boats as the number of men trying for them warrants, and members of the winning boat in each grade will receive individual cups...
...clock three crews of the first division took their starting positions as follows: 1, Randolph; 2, Russell; 3, Claverly. Ridgely did not appear on the river at all, and Mt. Auburn street appeared late with only seven men. At the start Russell and Claverly immediately began to pick up on Randolph, which was rowing a slow stroke, and, keeping the same positions relative to each other, they continued to gain until the Stillman Infirmary was reached. Rounding the bend at that point poor steering caused Russell to drop back, and it looked for a time as if Claverly would score...
...offer of cups to the members of the winning crew in each grade, and the better chance for individual coaching should make fall rowing interesting to the participants, while the longer period of graded crew work should make it easier for the coaches to develop and pick out University material...