Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision of the Harvard Summer School to offer courses designed to equip more fully coaches of small colleges and secondary schools in the modern refinements of many sports is no innovation as far as colleges in general are concerned. Many other colleges have been giving such courses for a number of years, while Harvard has lagged behind, offering such instruction only on a limited scale. Now she is approaching the place she occupies in other branches of education...
...Clark '23, Assistant Director of Athletics in the University, and Supervisor of courses in athletic coaching in the Summer School, announced yesterday that courses especially designed to aid coaches of high school, preparatory school and small college teams in dealing with the theory and practice of many sports will be offered for the first time by the Harvard Summer School this year. Hitherto the Department of Physical Education has offered such courses on a more limited scale, but this season will give fully rounded courses equal to those offered by other schools...
...course in track work which will not open until July 29, continuing then until the end of the Summer School term, will be under the supervision of E. L. Farrell, coach of the University track team, and member of the Olympic coaching staff. E. A. Wachter, University basketball coach will give a three weeks course in basketball, lasting from July 8 to July...
...charge of the boxing in the University will be in charge of a course in that sport, the instruction period extending from July 8 to 26, while H. C. Cowles will, as in former years, give instruction in tennis and squash throughout the full six weeks period of the Summer School term...
...Legend tells that hot, sweating Plowboy Young was so impressed one summer day by the cool nonchalance of attorneys arguing in the county court house that he instantly resolved to turn from clods and dirt...