Word: train
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...article in the last Crimson revives the old question of the amount of training necessary for our crews. We believe the University crew acts wisely in not commencing to train until after the Christmas holidays. The men obtain a respite from monotonous training, and have an opportunity of playing foot-ball in the fall. It the 'Varsity can afford to hold off as long as they do, we think that the class crews should postpone their training even further; for the race they row is a short one and unimportant in comparison with the 'Varsity race...
...intend to disparage regularity in sleep, diet or exercise, but we think that crew men can do all the work necessary without beginning to train as crews so early in the season. It seems to us that much more would be gained by giving to each man a course of exercise suited to him individually; he would thus be freed from the necessity of presenting himself at a definite hour each day. We hope for a radical change in this matter, so that hereafter rowing in the class crews will not be so much opposed to the enjoyment...
...only one, Mr. H. J. D. Jones, is reappointed this year. This indicates not that the college intends to make less of elocution than heretofore, but rather a preference for the system which Mr. Jones uses. There has been for some years a desire to check the tendency to train young men for theatrical declamation, and to give instead a foundation of development better calculated to make good public speakers at the bar, in the pulpit, or on the legislative floor. This desire has been enforced by the decisions of every set of judges who have been selected to award...
...passenger train on the Maine Central Railroad collided with a special train containing the Maine Central directors yesterday. Several persons were slightly injured, but no lives lost...
...University Foot-Ball Eleven leave for New York on Friday, Nov. 10th, by the one o'clock train. They play Columbia, at Hoboken, Saturday, Nov. 11th, at two o'clock. It is hoped that a large number of men will be present to encourage the team in their first game for the college championship...