Word: strength
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This seems like a radical statement, but we cannot help feeling its truth. Athletes themselves admit that the practice is often drudgery, and its greatest pleasure is the feeling of strength that accompanies the gradual perfection of team play for the intercollegiate games,--the real tests. Shall we increase our periods of practice out of all proportion to our games, or shall we organize the football team in November and the baseball team for Commencement week? In either case the interest of the participants will be decreased one hundred-fold, and of that there can be but one result--intercollegiate...
...chief value of a Fichte memorial does not lie in the reference to the past, but in the importance for present day thought. It is evident that after some decades of philosophical indifference, a new strong philosophical movement has set in all over the world and that its strength lies in a revival of Fichte's ethical idealism. It is most fortunate, therefore, that Professor Julius Goebel, who is equally interested in the historical and philosophical aspects of Fichte, will deliver the chief oration. HUGO MUNSTERBERG
...Freshmen have shown an ability to score heavily against a weak team, but as yet their real strength has not been tried out. The floor-work and passing are good and there has been an improvement in the shooting, although the men still tend to miss easy chances. On the defense the team is weak and the men do not follow the ball closely...
...first game of the interclass hockey series will be played between the Juniors and the Sophomores in the Stadium this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. This game was scheduled for yesterday but was postponed because some of the men had not had their strength tests transferred. A practice game was played yesterday instead, in which the Sophomores outplayed the Juniors on account of the latter team's lack of practice...
Coach W. E. Quinn called for more men, especially in the hammer throw. It is a poor policy to be content with the present strength of the team...