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...championship team for any section. The game calls for too much physically from its players to make it possible to stage a sufficient number of games to decide a football championship. Players who have put forth all that they could muster against a traditional rival might show up stale against an inferior football team a week later. Certain games call for the supreme effort; others are merely football games to fill in a schedule. --The Outlook...
...will help Mr. Armstrong in arriving at the best stroke for the crew. Coach Gianinni, it is understood, will have charge of the training of the men. He will devote his energies to doing what few Yale coaches have achieved in recent years, namely, keeping the men from going stale...
...Garland contributes two pieces of verse: one in simple "Wreek of the Hesperus" style, seems strangely old fashioned among its up-to-date surroundings; the other, "Old Books to Read," a happy treatment of a theme that never grows stale. Mr. Bradley Randall's "Memoir of my Dead Past" deals with a phase of experience too remote from the reviewer for him to pass judgment on its truth. But it is clearly the kind of thing that must be handled delicately if at all: and it is hardly suitable material for the experiment of an apprentice. Mr. R. S. Mitchell...
...University eleven's practice yesterday. Easy signal drill and no scrimmage indicated that the team is concentrating in laying plans for the Elis. The coaches do not wish to run the risk either of being deprived of a good player by injury, or of having the men go stale. In their character, all of the practices are directed at Yale rather than Brown...
...moment probably accounts for acting at this first performance more like that of a dress rehearsal. The verse play, however, brings out even in professionals all covert faults of enunciation and intonation. Indistinctness even among the most experienced in the Delta Upsilon cast was marked. Moreover, time has made stale so many of the lines which originally delighted an audience that the comedy must be played fast, with skillful pointing of the lines and some building up by action to make places weak for a modern audience produce their old effect. There was too much over-rapid speech with slowness...