Word: acted
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...wrong in his estimate of the corrupting influence of this "crooked amateur," but he directs his remarks against Harvard, Yale and Princeton "because of their prominence in the college world and not at all to single them out as graver offenders than others." He commends President Tucker's act in disqualifying certain guilty players at Dartmouth "to President Eliot of Harvard, President Hadley of Yale and President Wilson of Princeton, all of whom give the semi-professional baseball player unquestioned freedom of their respective athletic teams," and concludes by saying that these presidents "could, if they had the courage...
...effect that a return will be made this year to the system of graduate coaching, two Yale graduates have been appointed to take charge of the team. They are Carter, the well-known pitcher, and G. Case, who captained a Yale nine in the early 90s. Mr. Camp will act as advisory coach to the team. The plan is to approach as nearly as possible to the Yale coaching system as applied to football, and constitutes a reversion from the practice of employing a professional coach followed during the past four seasons...
...attention concentrated upon the possible combinations and plays of his opponents, and upon his own part in his own plays. There are only one or two games which force the player to think of as many things at once, to make up his mind as instantaneously, and to act as quickly on the conclusion he has drawn, as the game of football. This quality of co-ordination is more valuable now than ever, as the variety of attack of the opponents is so much wider...
Fichte's masterpiece, "Uber der Begriff der Wissenchaftslehre," was written with the purpose of proving the theoretical and practical philosophy of Immanuel Kant. His greatest axiom was "act according to your predestination" because he regarded the laws of one's individually as supreme. He was a powerful influence in the natural philosophy of Schelling and in the dogma of identity of Hegel...
President Eliot will give an address at 8 o'clock this evening under the auspices of the Twentieth Century Club of Boston, on "The Canadian Industrial Disputes and the Investigation Act of 1907." The address will be given at the rooms of the club, 3 Joy street, and special invitations to be present have been sent to manufacturers and merchants of Boston and surrounding towns...