Word: training
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good which can scarcely fail to arise from the forums is self-evident. They offer to all of us an opportunity to train our speaking abilities and to teach ourselves to think logically and clearly upon the questions which agitate the country or the College. Whether or not they will lead to the remarkable results which have been achieved through them in the Oxford Union will depend upon the degree of enthusiasm with which the University enters into their spirit. We shall at least expect an auspicious beginning with a topic of such lively interest...
...work with all men who can be at the field between 10 and 12.30 o'clock. This is entirely in addition to the regular afternoon practice, but as many men as are able are urged to report at this time in order to give Coach Quinn more chance to train the men individually...
...football team will play the first regular game on its schedule this afternoon with the Groton School, at Groton. A squad of twenty-two men, exclusive of coaches and managers, will meet at the main entrance of the Subway station at 11 o'clock, and will take the 11.39 train for Ayer from the North Station, Boston...
...original purpose of American colleges was mainly to train men for the ministry, but so it is no longer. Harvard, founded chiefly to educate clergymen, now gives to this profession barely two per cent. of her graduates; Yale, begun under similar impulses, now contributes a meagre three per cent. This and other interesting changes in the professions favored by college graduates are described in a bulletin by Bailey B. Burritt on "Professional Distribution of University and College Graduates," just issued by the United States Bureau of Education...
...while necessarily shorter than that of the colleges farther south, is absolutely essential for a successful spring season. All men who desire to participate in the Freshman track meet on October 16 should report at once, as there is but little more than two weeks remaining in which to train. The handicap games follow a week later...