Word: successful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting held at the Union last night to celebrate the football victory was opened by singing some of the football songs. President Eliot was the first speaker. He mentioned the excellent training which gave the team its fine physical condition. Two great elements in their success were that they were not worked to exhaustion in practice and that they had learned to play together as a team. He also spoke of the friendly spirit existing between Harvard and Yale...
...formations this year have been confined to straight plays. No attention has been given to double passes, delayed passes or other trick plays, the intention of the coaches being to win through straight football. In all the games this year the tendem tackles play has been used with success and the development of this formation has occupied a great deal of the practice...
...formations this year have been confined to straight plays. No attention has been given to double passes, delayed passes on other trick plays, the intention of the coaches being to win through straight football. In all the games this year the tandem tackles play has been used with success and the development of this formation has occupied a great deal of the practice...
...present year. The shower this year is probably the last for thirty-three years, although it is possible that next year a small shower may be visible. The color of the Leonids was a faint green. Three dozen photographs were taken during the night, but they were not very successful, as the Leonids were much fainter and of shorter duration than on the preceding evening. In all about seven dozen photographs were made and although they have not as yet been carefully examined their development shows them to have been fairly successful. The Observatory succeeded in getting several photographs...
...circular was issued Saturday by Professor E. C. Pickering, in which he announces the first successes ever made in photographing the spectrum of a lightning flash. Comparison of the three negatives obtained at different times in the months of July and September shows the curious fact that the spectrum of lightning is not always the same. The spectrum of the flash closely resembles that of the new star, the Nova Persei. The apparatus was the same as is used in obtaining photographs of the spectra of stars and the success of the experiment, it is expected, will open...