Word: backed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There had been, half a century before, an earlier Tenement House Commission, appointed by the Senate of the State, to see what ailed New York. It came back to Albany and recommended, as a means of abolishing drunkenness, "furnishing to each man a clean and comfortable home. I suppose they laughed at that, called it paternal government, and, put in that bald shape, it looked like it. There were fifteen thousand tenements in New York at that early day. Today there are eighty thousand and their united influence goes toward the destruction of the home. The discovery, on this side...
Princeton won the game principally through effective checking, speedy skating especially in following back, and ability on the part of the forwards to cover their men. The University forwards found great difficulty in getting away with the puck, and were continually impeded in shooting by their opponents. The first half was uneventful compared with the second, and when, towards the end of the match the teams were alternating in the lead the contest was most exciting for the large number of spectators...
...University basketball team will play Wesleyan in the Gymnasium this evening at 8 o'clock. Wesleyan has a strong team, as four of last year's players are back again, and the forwards have so far this season scored heavily against their opponents. Wesleyan lost to Yale by a score of 20 to 24 and to Brown by a score of 22 to 23, but defeated Fordham 76 to 20 and Manhattan...
...sided game the University hockey team defeated Springfield Training School in the Stadium yesterday afternoon by the score of 16 to 1. Springfield was outclassed in every department of the game. The University forwards at times played with good team work, followed back well, and shot accurately. The men also showed better physical condition than their opponents and were much faster on their skates. Willetts played a good game at point, was clever with his stick and effective in stopping rushes by the Springfield forwards. There was a tendency on the part of the Harvard team to make forward passes...
...unconsciously swinging back to the simple faith of the apostles, that Christ's Kingdom is at hand, and the more firmly we realize this fact, the more religious, the more celestial becomes our religion. Christ never intended to prepare men in this life for a future existence; his fondest hope and prayer was to prepare men to live here on earth...