Word: talking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman squad who will start the game against Princeton 1916 tomorrow were given light work yesterday. A blackboard talk followed by fifteen minutes at the dummies started the practice and then the linesmen and backs were separated, the former to run down under punts, and the latter to perfect their forward passing. A half hour of signal drill ended work...
Football practice was very light yesterday afternoon, lasting less than an hour. A blackboard talk in the Locker Building was followed by a brief scrimmage, in which the second team was drilled in plays something like these used by Princeton, and the first team given practice in breaking them...
...Lincoin Steffens delivered a lecture on "Socialism versus Radicalism" under the auspices of the Socialist Club in Emerson D last night. Mr. Steffens' talk was not so much a criticism of Socialism alone as of social and political theories in general. Socialism is characteristic of other social philosophies in being out-of-date and crystallized in thought. There is much need of radioalism in the party, to broaden it and to bring it in touch with the results of recent experience and research. There may be truth in the original teachings of Marx; there is also truth in the philosophy...
...Monday practice, the work of the University football squad was light yesterday afternoon. Several men of the regular line-up were absent on account of slight injuries or because of their need of a rest after the Williams game. Some time was spent by the coaches in a talk on Saturday's game, and then the men went on the field for a half-hour of elementary drill, the linesmen under Coaches L. and P. Withington, the ends under Coach Leary, and the backs under Coaches Daly and Wigglesworth. Two teams were assembled and a short scrimmage gone through...
...highest sense of that word, of self-control, careful thought, wise choice, and firm decision. In a single page, full of the rare spirit that for thirty years has been one of the greatest blessings of our College,--sweet and wise,--Dean Briggs opens the number with a talk about the Chapel, even better and more compelling than the good five-minute sermons he so heartily commends. "A Senior" writes with genuine and convincing fervor of the opportunities for service that Phillips Brooks House offers, incidentally showing one of the advantages of the city college over the country college...