Word: talking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...served actively on committees. At the time of the state election in 1912 Mr. Churchill was candidate for governor of New Hampshire on the Progressive ticket. He was defeated by a small plurality. Since the war in Europe started Mr. Churchill has studied its different phases and his talk should prove both interesting and instructive...
Practice yesterday afternoon was marked by a long session at the tackling dummies, for the first time since early in the season. This was due to the noticeable weakness in that department against Penn. State on Saturday. Coach Haughton gave the men a long blackboard talk early in the afternoon, and this was followed by a half-hour's individual work. Practice in kicking and receiving punts for the backs completed the preliminary workout. With Gilman back in the line-up and Dadmun displacing Cowen at guard, the University team scrimmaged with the seconds for the rest of the afternoon...
...conversation. The author thinks the ten pages devoted to athletics in "Harvard of Today," the Territorial Club's booklet, shows a too great interest in athletics. Perhaps it does, and undoubtedly conversation during football season runs largely to football, but there are many worse things than football to talk about...
...cynical or sceptical persons it may seem incredible that the five athletes, who must have heard endless talk about the professionalism of summer ball, were substantially innocent; it is at least equally incredible that a group of the best Yale athletes should wittingly jeopardize their amateur status by openly doing what invited investigation and would not bear it. The endless talk they have heard may itself be one cause of their ignorance. Nothing is more be wildering nothing is viewed in more varied and contradictory ways, than the ethics and the academic result, of summer ball-playing. There...
...long black-board talk in the Locker Building was the first event of the day's schedule, and following this the men retired to the Cage. Here the coaches actively demonstrated the mistakes of the Cornell game, and all were put through a careful signal practice and a drill in the rudiments of the game. Enwright and McKinlock each participated in the work, and Robinson was given a chance to run the team. As a conclusion to the practice, a short punting drill was held in the Stadium...