Word: pre-season
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...intensive and serious than ever before but also--for the first time secret, is rather surprising to those who remember the celebrated. Presidents' Agreement" of last year. The avowed purpose of this agreement was, it will be recalled, to abate a dangerously increasing, "over-emphasis" on football, of which pre-season practice, "championship" teams and "tramp athletes" were merely symptoms. As a result, all practice prior to the September opening of College was discontinued and of course, the schedules were proportionally reduced...
...Ever since 1916, Yale has opened the season with bright prospects, good material, and the applause of Eastern sporting editors...Black Novembers attest the futility of pre-season triumphs...
...conclusion which Professor Thwing draws forth is this: that the best training for a lawyer in college is the solid, but broadening study of languages. For these teach a man both to reason and to express himself. The best lawyers were not those who in college tried to get pre-season practice by studying subjects related to Law, but those who learned to study successfully anything worthy of interest...
...undergraduate has figuratively been a week sailing without a port to steer to, the team has profited by the extra time. There has been opportunity, despite the short pre-season practice, to exercise old and to develop new material without that pressure of an early game which occasionally has resulted in pre-season injuries...
...signs that crew is perhaps after all about to come out of the wilderness. Three years of failures and disappointment, which reached a culmination last Spring, have been followed by something of a new spirit apparent in the care given to the selection of a coach and in the pre-season practice...