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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening at the Colonial Club W. C. Forbes '92, who coached so successfully the freshman teams of the last two years, gave an interesting talk upon "The Strategy of the Game." He defined strategy as the best use of opportunity and showed the strategic value of various parts of the field, of certain seconds of time and of the advantage to be gained by having the whole team understand "the why" of every play...
...most important measurements, and those which should be correlated are height and weight. Deviations in height may be due to various causes. There are forty bones which help to determine a man's stature. The difference in length of legs is the greatest determining factor...
After showing the other important measurements and their relations, Doctor Sargent illustrated by the stereoption various types of physical development and closed with a plea for the introduction of athletic requirements into the college curriculum...
...paper on Harvard Meteorological Stations in Peru, Mr. Ward Said: Various expeditions have been made to find a suitable place for a meteorological laboratory in high altitudes, one to Colorado in 1888 and another to California in 1889. Mr. Bailey in his search hit upon the Andes at a place in about 16 degrees south latitude. In this region it is very dry, there being an annual rainfall of but about four inches. The rain all falls between January and March and during nearly all the rest of the year the sky is clear and unobscured...
...business meeting of the Harvard Memorial Society was held in 10 Holworthy last evening, Dr. Justin Winsor presiding. Designs were submitted from different companies for the various tablets which the society expects to erect, and a sum of money was appropriated for the erection of the first tablet. These tablets are to be erected on Massachusetts Hall, two bearing the names of twenty-two distinguished graduates who roomed in the building and the third giving the important dates in its history. The first to be erected will be one of those bearing the names of graduates. The inscriptions...