Word: basic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Walter Camp, Howard Jones, the new head coach, and Captain H. H. Ketcham. The belief was expressed that in the past Yale had paid too much attention to telling the men just what they should do in a game, and this year more emphasis will be laid on the basic principles allowing the men to work out their own methods of attack and defence in actual play...
...basic principle upon which the Associated Press works is that every newspaper member must supply the news of its immediate vicinity to the central bureaus located in the larger cities of this country. It is the duty of the Press to get all the "news that breaks," that is, news of a sudden and unexpected nature, besides all routine news, and to distribute it in the best possible form...
...Problem of Evil." Mr. Tagore said in part: life is essentially in motion and evil helps to draw it forward. But too often we exaggerate its importance by regarding it as static. The true movement of life is towards the enlargement of itself; selfishness may be regarded as the basic cause of evil, and society having thus gotten out of gear, we are obliged to use coercion to maintain order. Evil proves the dignity of life in that it is the right of man to suffer, but it is the duty of man to turn evil to good...
...Palmer said that a personal religion, which each man must work out for himself, as opposed to the corporate religion into which he is born, is the basic necessity of all belief. Some attain it by intuition, others by logical reasoning, but unless the personal element is present, faith will give way to scepticism in a crisis...
...basic purpose of these insignia is to increase the number of a man's friends among his fellow classmen. The last part of the career of a class is certainly the most difficult of all times to attempt to widen a man's acquaintance artificially. At best, it can only result in a bowing acquaintance with a score or so of men who you had no idea were members of your class. Moreover, a class has become definitely sifted into groups by Senior year. A man's friends are made and he will inevitably move more or less completely...