Word: trains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...propose to contrast minutely the British with the American athletes or to discuss at length their different modes of training. The Americans certainly take great pains in this respect, and work out their methods with mechanical precision, rather too mechanical, perhaps, if it be true as I am told that some men avoid being selected to represent their university in athletic competition on account of the many pleasures which they would have to give up and the laborious training which they would have to undergo. Possibly we train too little, they train too much. The climate no doubt...
...course at Henley is only a little over a mile, but the eights that row there have not the time to train for a longer race, and the races have to be rowed in heats. Oxford and Cambridge, as has been mentioned, row considerably more than four miles. If our English friends can do it, I for one think the American college rowing men ought to have the stamina, and I believe they have it. To many people, it is a source of great humiliation that the Englishmen are so much superior to us Americans in contests involving endurance. Here...
...track athletics, before college enthusiasm for that branch of sport was roused, it was not unusual for Harvard to be represented in the dual games with Yale by a team of not more than a dozen men. In fact, not many more than that number took the trouble to train for the team. Fortunately such a condition of affairs is entirely unknown today. It took only one or two defeats to prove the foolishness of depending upon a small number of particular stars to pull out a set of closely contested games, and the result today is that as early...
...Harvard party of the intercollegiate geological excursion to Westfield, Mass., will take the 4.19 train on the Boston and Albany railroad, at Trinity Place (Back Bay), this afternoon. Mileage tickets will be provided. The party will reach Westfield at 7.07, and stop at the Hotel Bismarck. The return will be Saturday evening, on the train due in Boston...
During the past week the practice has been very light, having consisted principally of getting the men into condition. From now on, the work will be harder, and the men will have to train for their special events...