Word: statement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...especially active in promoting track athletics and cross-country running with a view to having military and naval entries in the indoor meets of the coming season. To further their campaign for more participation in these sports by men in service it has issued a statement showing the value of cross-country running as proved by many trials...
...statement reads, "The average time enlisted men could run one mile would be six minutes, 30 seconds. After a course of cross-country running, three times per week for two months, a fair average of the time would be five minutes, 15 seconds. The mathematical improvement does not begin to indicate the all-round improved physical fitness...
...been said by some who study history, that times make men; and again, by others who study history, that men make the times. Neither statement is a full truth, even as human truth is constituted. For there have been great epochs with small men, and small epochs with great men, who burst their hearts against the narrow walks of their environment, and died...
...Harvard football team has played its first game of the season and won. In other years this would be a statement to excite no comment. It would be a matter of course. But there is a great significance in the fact this year...
...definite statement regarding the program of entertainment at the hut has been made, but musicales, motion picture shows and other performances, as well as Sunday meetings of various kinds, will be held throughout the winter. Although the hut was to have been completed by this date, unforeseen delays will postpone the opening for a fortnight...