Word: account
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...took a long time to discover Yale's kicking methods, but in the end they were turned to account by the Blue's opponents. Both Princeton and Harvard took them up and experimented to such an extent that the Elis no longer enjoy the advantage they once had. It became no longer advantageous to punt even on mixed downs, merely for distance, and from a safe formation...
Wherever Haughton or his men set their foot, there will be punting. And there will be punting until the rules are changed, for with rare exception, in matches of the first importance, the running game will not decide the issue. The theory of the punting game takes little account of the early encounters with teams so weak that they may be beaten without it. It is concerned with only one thing--the game one must...
Although the European hostilities seem to have had no effect on the number of students entering the University this fall, their effect will be keenly felt by the loss of several members of the university faculty who were rendered unable to return on account of the war. Professor Georges Mauxion, head of the department of design in the College of Architecture and Professor O. G. Guerlac, of the French department, were both called to arms at the outbreak of the war and were forced to return to France to rejoin their regiments. A small number of undergraduates, natives...
...chemistry department of Cornell University will suffer the loss of a large shipment of apparatus which has been held up in Hamburg, Germany, on account of the war. In the spring a large number of supplies were ordered from different factories all through Germany and would have reached here about the first of September had not the war broken out. The department may possibly be handicapped in its work because of this, but, however, will suffer no shortage of chemicals...
...important books on business research are, "Scientific Management," by C. B. Thompson, LL.B., A.M., Instructor in Industrial Organization, an account of applications of the Taylor system; and "The Evolution of the English Corn-Market from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century," by Norman Scott Brien Gras, Assistant Professor of History in Clark University...