Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...English people. There is no outward excitement, and no visible anxiety. One might even suppose there was lacking a consciousness of the tremendous issues at stake. Such is the English way. But Germany will yet awake to discover her folly when she aroused the British lion into action...
...gain ground through carrying the ball, nevertheless facts to be adduced from these comparative figures are significant. Chiefly they bring John Rush, the coach, into relief. In one season this man, who came from a secondary school in the Middle West, who had not seen big Eastern teams in action in many years, gave to the Tigers something they had lacked since 1899, a dependable ground-gaining system. It would be blinking the situation to assume that Princeton, win or lose, will have an attack which will give pause to her strongest opponents. Certainly, he has the material to work...
...action of the committee, as Dean Briggs phrased it, is "highly commendable." Strictly honorable methods are frequently lost sight of, particularly among school teams. And it is with just these teams that the "Football Code" is likely to have the greatest effect. If schoolboy players learn that unfair methods are discountenanced by lovers of the game, if they are taught clean and honest tactics instead of questionable ones, there will be less abuse on the part of "outsiders," more honesty on the part of those who play, and a higher standard in the game itself...
...university team or crew who has lost his class standing because of deficiencies in scholarship, or because of university discipline, until after one year from the time at which he lost his class standing, unless in the meantime he shall have been restored to his former class standing by action of his university faculty...
...morning session, great pleas were made for party harmony, and for decisive action. Chauncy Depew held up the present Democratic administration as an excellent example of a shifting, vacillating policy, and called upon the delegates to vote with the thought ever present in mind that the country does, and will need badly "the guidance of a firm hand...