Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Oxford and Cambridge occupy an unique position in the minds of Englishmen, a position to which no college or group of colleges can ever hope to attain in the United States. Through whatever spectacles one views English history from the thirteenth century onward, he cannot help but perceive the influence of the universities on the life of the country. I need not elaborate the point. It is sufficient to say that, like the best of everything else in English life, the universities have been saved for 'the best...
...years this trophy will remain in the permanent possession of the school in whose hands it has been placed the greatest number of times. From year to year, the names of the different successful institutions will be appended to the tablet, so that it will attain a high degree of value by the time of its permanent bestowal...
...Michigan eleven for the game with the University on October 31 has been going on as rapidly as possible. Michigan is sensible of the fact that a victory in that game will win more prestige for her than twenty western victories, and Coach Yost is exerting every effort to attain that prestige. He has been building up what may be termed a "smashing machine." For the Harvard game he plans an alternating policy. The forward pass will be used extensively, but the mainstay of the attack will consist of the old, straight line-plunging methods such...
This is the last call for candidates this fall and men who wish to attain success in the competitions must enter them...
Judge A. P. Stone '93 will open the meeting, and there will be talks by undergraduates. The reasons for this step the objects it is hoped to attain, and the program for the year will be explained by the speakers. The tentative program as laid out includes regular bi-weekly meetings at which debates will be held, and outside debates with colleges and high schools. There are to be three men from the Debating Council to coach the Society. They will be appointed later...