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Harvard sought a coach who was in accord with the best traditions of University football and who was no less in touch with the most recent development of the sport elsewhere. It wanted also an able strategist, a teacher of a sound game, but most of all it wanted a leader of the same high type that has invariably been in command of football at Harvard. All these desiderata the new appointment satisfies to a nicety...
...application of those fundamentals will be watched with interest by everyone. But under the difficulties with which he is necessarily confronted, immediate and undiluted success in winning games is not to be made the measure of the confidence and support which the University will accord him. That support is already complete. It will not be diminished or increased in proportion to the number of touchdowns his team scores in the Stadium next fall. Needless to say this does not alter the fact that ten thousand men of Harvard, or whatever the number has now become, are hoping that great numbers...
...Dearest Mama: ... I am always most anxious to meet your wishes in every respect, and always regret if we are not quite cf accord...
...actor crossed his legs. "I have my own conceptions of Mr. Lincoln's character," he said, "but I wanted to find out how far they accord with your...
...John Henry Patterson, then running some coal mine stores, bought two machines to try to keep track of his counter losses. Shortages continued. He found that the clerks counted at night what cash they had left in the till during the day, and then punched the register to accord. Another time he found his cash was regularly $2 short of the amount the punched holes indicated. A $2 a night watchman, who had been discharged, had continued secretly at his conscientious watch and extracted the $2 nightly as his proper wage. Shortly thereafter Mr. Patterson got control of a small...