Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...athletic problem" at length, but it remained for the Board of Overseers to present the first recommendation on the subject worthy of the name. Although the wording of their statement has not yet been made public it is understood that the Board has requested the Faculty to investigate a system of compulsory athletics for Freshmen, after giving their general approval to such a plan...
...life which we would like to avoid--although we may at heart know some of them to be valuable. There has been a time when the cry against the possibility of compulsory exercise was loud and long, but we have come to believe that a partial adoption of this system is the one way to further the bodily development of the college...
...regulations laid down by the Faculty are rigid--but the question of exercise we leave entirely to his own volition. The Athletic Association deserves credit for having done all in its power to make voluntary athletics universal in the University. It is not its fault that the present system operates only for the comparative few. But since everything possible short of compulsory athletics will not accomplish the result desired the one course open to secure that result is to follow the recommendation of the Board of Overseers...
...great success of the Haughton system did not begin until the following year when Yale was defeated 20-0. By building up his team on some special player or some powerful play. Haughton turned out championship teams for the next three years, beating Yale by scores of 15-5 in 1913, 36-0 in 1914, and 41-0 in 1915, which was the greatest defeat ever suffered by Yale at the hands of the University...
...General Wood's service as a department, division and camp commander during the war. The citation says: "He has displayed qualities of leadership and professional attainments of a high order in the administration and training of his various commands, and has furthered in every way during the war the system of officers' training schools...