Word: recently
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent meeting of the senior class of Yale last evening H. W. Wells was elected class orator, T. W. Buchanan, class poet, and W. W. Ames, statistician, Messrs. Barstow, McMahon, Platt, Sherrill and Vernon were elected class historians...
...point out the reason why the crew proved so slow would lead us too deeply into the study of their style of rowing, but in general the cause seems to lie in the failure to profit by the experience of recent years, inasmuch as the whole system of organization and management introduced by Storrow in 1885 was completely disregarded because the crews in the crews in the two succeeding years were defeated. The Yale and Columbia crews of 1886 beat Harvard after close races because they adopted, to a considerable extent, the same system and ideas that Storrow had taught...
...crew, could they feel that it was in their hands and not in the hands of the graduates, the chance of success would be greatly increased. In selecting such a committee, particular care should be taken that only experienced oarsmen are chosen, and those who have rowed in recent years should be given the preference...
...recent years increasing attention has been continually directed to the importance of physical culture among young men in college. There is reason to believe that if the importance of this subject has not been exaggerated, at least the methods employed for encouraging it have been more or less mistaken. It is too often the case that at the beginning of a session young men are animated for a week or two by a very lively zeal to participate in athletic sports which in a brief period wears itself out; after which the gymnasium is for the most part deserted. What...
...recent meeting of the Yale University crew, George R. Carter of the scientific school, who has pulled at No. 7 in the last two races, was elected captain for the season...