Word: talking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...athlete, eating at a private table, is plied with questions in regard to the team, and, as the centre of an inquisitive group, is never allowed to forget his athletic connections. At the training table, on the other hand, a healthy crowd of fellows would no more over-talk the sport than in their rooms, and outside of the natural review of the day's work the conversation turns upon anything but sport...
...often, talk about the game is necessary. Many of the coaches are graduates who find it difficult to talk things over with the men except at meal hours, and consequently find the training table the best place in which to discuss plays and rules. At such times men meet upon a totally different basis from that of the athletic field. Friendly criticism and quiet discussion is certainly more effective under these conditions, and here a man is far more ready to act upon a suggestion than when his mind and energy are centred on the actual field work. There...
...Copeland will introduce the first speaker, Mr. Durland, who will give an illustrated talk on his own experiences in Russia. Mr. Durland was born in New York, attended Harvard for a time, and then went to the Universities of Edinburgh and Paris. He was in Russia at the time when the Czar made his famous speech at the opening of the Duma, reporting for Harper's Weekly. The things which he tells of in his talk were witnessed by his own eyes, and the pictures he shows, are very vivid witnesses of these sights...
...Mathews will give an informal talk before the Walker's Club this evening at 8.15 o'clock, in Stoughton 20, to which all members of the University are cordially invited. Besides achieving distinction in his regular work as a decorative artist, Mr. Mathews has become well known as a writer and naturalist. His works include "Familiar Trees and their Leaves," and "The Golden Flower...
...Hopkinson Smith, artist, author and engineer, will give "A Rambling Talk" on matters of interest to college men in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock...