Word: proof
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Weld four-oar race which took place Wednesday was a performance which reflects much credit upon the Weld Boat Club, and offers additional proof, if any be necessary, of the club's practical value as a training school. In these scrub contests, furnishing racing experience and an incentive to men of all degrees of rowing ability to make use of it, lies one of the most promising features of the present status of Harvard rowing...
...summary action could be of effect without a change of the rules which are now in force. The measure was, then, necessarily voluntary. Far from showing that the coaches have taken such harsh measures to awaken the team to a sense of responsibility, the whole episode offers strong proof that the men feel more keenly than any one else the mortification of Saturday's failure and are determined to set themselves right in the Pennsylvania game, their only opportunity. It is hardly necessary to add that the University feels confident that whatever the outcome of the game, the Harvard team...
...football squad will leave the square in a special car at 4 o'clock this afternoon. It is hardly necessary to urge their fellow students to give proof of confidence in the men by gathering to cheer them...
...proof of this fact, it is only necessary to point to the experience of the Freshman clubs in the past. In each case some 50 to 75 men showed a disposition to do regular work, and in at least one instance, that of '99, the class rewarded its debaters by ample recognition. Here then was what seems to be a basis for a logical and healthy growth...
...better proof of the practical possibilities of the Weld system, could hardly be sought. Any student who has any ambition to row should feel encouraged to try for a Weld crew, knowing that he will receive plenty of instruction, whatever his ability, or lack of ability...