Word: timed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Special emphasis is being laid now on accuracy and sureness rather than on speed or individual brilliancy. Yesterday the two offense lines were time and again sent down the ice with the puck to train them in the art of team-work around which the Winsor system of hockey play has been built. Since the resumption of practice this week the squad has improved considerably...
...squash racquets. A ladder tournament will be instituted among the members of each list in such a form that the leader in each list will hold his position only against continual competition. All men on the list, except the first ranking ten, can challenge at any time the man three places above him on the list. In the first ten any man can challenge the player next above him. Thus a continual competition results and a consequent instability of the rank lists...
...played in front of an open fire, but the nature of the sport seems to preclude the idea. Doubtless the football team would prefer to practice in morrischairs; the swimming team would like to hold their races in bathtubs. Doubtless, but --. Harvard men do not always spend their time avoiding disagreeable work. Our much-envied string of victories over Yale and Princeton proves that there are some men in College who are not afraid of cold weather or hard, unpleasant, grinding practice...
...Clod," by Lewis Beach, is the of the second of the one-act plays. This play will have its first presentation in Boston at this time, although it was one of the most successful of the Washington Square plays. John Pratt Whitman the producer and Thelma Tapley a charge of the scenery...
...period of not longer than six months and not less than three months men will be gathered into great camps in the various sections of the country. During this time it will be the chief aim of the instruction to better the physical condition of the men and instil in them the rudiments of fighting upon which the whole complicated system of training might be built in the future...