Word: system
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...highly creditable victory of the Weld crew over the B. A. A. yesterday has a great significance for the rowing interests of the University. The crew has adopted as nearly as possible the stroke taught by Mr. Lehmann, and the whole Weld system has consistently adhered to its purpose of forming a training school for class and 'Varsity material. Since this work began, moreover, the interest in the Weld Club has increased to a gratifying extent...
...alteration will be made in the boat house this summer to make way for the park system which will include a part of the land the house now occupies...
...energy of the management the club has this year done more than ever before. The chief drawback from the beginning of the season has been a lack of good coaching for all the different crews. It is now too late in the season to introduce any new system of coaching into the Weld Boat Club; but, as the regular class crews have now finished their season, their members could be of considerable help to the Weld crews for the rest of the season, and any such assistance would be fully appreciated...
...came Soldiers Field and the Longfellow gift. The Corporation wishes to provide ample ground for out-door exercises. The present Corporation consists of seven men all successful in their callings. They know what every student needs: not an abnormal muscular development, but a well developed body, a sound nervous system and a serviceable digestive apparatus. They believe in athletic sports because they are not all physical. Brains can not be dispensed with, and moral qualities are also developed by sports...
...recent number of Harper's Weekly on "Why Harvard does not Win" serves as the but against which Grilk '98 has levelled a very good bit of forensic writing. He has shown rather conclusively that a movement toward athletic reform lies not in a reorganization of our social system, nor in the proposed plan of disintegration into smaller colleges which Mr. Corbin, after a year or two at Oxford, advocates strongly, but rather in a greater unity and a broader sympathy among all undergraduates, inspired not alone by the hope of athletic success, but also by an interest...