Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Intercollegiate Athletic Association, December 27. This meeting will be held at the Hotel Astor, New York, and all the Eastern colleges and universities will have delegates. The purpose of the meeting is to determine how far the reconstruction of college athletics will go, and to what extent the whole system will be built up. Plans will be discussed as to the development of athletics on a modified scale, with the purpose in view of giving as high-class football as there was before the war, and still maintain a less lavish standard. The travelling expenses of teams could be diminished...
...over them to assist them in every practical way in doing so. Yet in time of peace, with the supreme necessity of persistent application largely removed, it is at least open to question whether students profit more from the pursuit of study under supervision than under a system of voluntary performance. It is said that many of the men, in spite of the watchful eye of the observer, do no more than gaze stupidly at their books or add their talent to the well-wrought benches in Sever...
...system of rotation among the non-commissioned officers has been established, and a complete change will probably be made every three weeks. This system is exceptionally beneficial in that it will give each man in the company a chance to exercise command...
...have been given thorough training in the rudiments of military science, namely, close order drill, physical exercises, guard duty, and the elementary work in the Small Arms Firing Manual. Besides this they have also been instructed for a short period every morning in the new British bayonet-fighting system. A bayonet assault-course is in the process of construstion and parry-sticks have been ordered...
...after a touchdown has been scored across the Hun goal line has come to pass, but not without bringing pangs of regret to the hearts of its numberless adherents. The effort to keep the game alive during the war was manifest last season by the trial of the "informal system." Again this year an endeavor has been made to arrange games between representative teams of the large colleges...