Word: training
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best of it, that is to say, those did who slept through the shifting of the cars at Albany. Tuesday morning after breakfast at Syracuse, the men amused themselves by watching the engineer trying to cool a hot box, and by running races along side of the train. In the afternoon the weather kept them on the train, and after lunching at Buffalo the men wandered all over the train. They were treated in a rather cold manner by the conductor, but after Cleveland, where we stopped for supper, the car was properly heated...
...next morning we left for St. Louis, and the dinner provided for us at Champagne was so poor that we were given one on the dining car. The day on the train was spent as usual, the men reading and playing cards and instruments; in fact the whole trip was made to the banjo accompaniment...
...notice that the freshmen crew is to begin to train today, and as the number of the men has been reduced so that idea can be obtained of the final crew, we cannot forbear a word to these who are left on the subject of training. It is a fact that freshmen are likely to get over-framed about a week before the last face, and this is due almost entirely to the nervous strain rather than to too much work. It is neccessary for men trying for a crew to avoid this nervousness and to keep themselves...
Owing to the late train the party could not arrive at the club room until half past ten in the evening. They were there greeted with three cheers by the two or. three hundred graduates present and President King introduced the guests with a short address of welcome. He said that for the last fifteen years the Harvard men of New York had been compelled to keep silence whenever foot ball was mentioned in the presence of Yale or Princeton men. Now, thanks to the work of Mr. Cumnock and his associates, they had obtained a right to pass opinions...
Clark, of the New York league club, will probably train the Williams nine this winter...