Word: recording
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard enjoyed a perfect record for a number of years, partly due, it must be admitted, to the fact that interest in debating was first aroused, and faculty instruction in that work first established here. Since then, however, interest has sprung up elsewhere, and other colleges have been transformed from weak to dangerous adversaries...
...reaction, however, from last year's do or die method of daily practice carries with it two dangers which must be strenuously guarded against. The first is a danger that the men themselves, selected partly on their past record, and treated with a novel tenderness, shall let up in their individual efforts, and fall into fatally listless habits. The other is that the coaches, unconsciously influenced by the same radical change, shall fail to infuse enough energy into the signal practice and short line-ups. After all the real object of the change is this-to get the chance...
...appearance of the football notice to the Freshman class, which we publish in another column, is an unfortunate beginning for 1901's athletic record. Out of the largest class which has yet entered the University, only some fifty men-or little more than half of last year's number-have come out to play football...
...their own accord. If there is one thing which can put a new man at Harvard in the way of making friends with his classmates and can give him a dignified and respected position before the College public, that one thing is to make for himself a creditable record on the football squad. For this consideration alone, then, even those who are incapable of bestirring themselves for the sake of their class, and for the sake of their college-for it deeply concerns the prestige of the University itself to maintain the high Freshman athletic record of the past-would...
Herbert E. Manvel of Elizabeth, N. J., is a member of the Freshman class at the U. of P. He will be a valuable addition to the track team, as he has a record of 1m. 57 4-5s. for the half mile...