Word: behind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of admissions to the enclosure greatly lessened. If these measures are found impracticable, other grounds will have to be chosen for there is no way of increasing the size of the present site except by cutting down the elms on the street side or by moving Holden Chapel behind Stoughton as has been suggested. Neither of these things is likely to be done...
...course, the objections against the danger from the crowded enclosure might be met by reducing the number of people and enlarging the exits; or by moving to another tree with plenty of room about it as, for instance, one behind either Matthews or University. The character of the exercises might also be changed so that no one could find fault with them. The gathering, marching and cheering are certainly pleasing features and the scramble around the tree many think might be changed so that individuals would have more chance of success and could compete without donning football clothes and without...
...editorial writer in the Crimson who compares the coached debater to a chess player performing the mechanical act of moving the pieces while an expert behind his back plans the moves for him, can hardly imagine that a professor stands on the platform behind the debater, whispering in his ear, though his words would seem to imply some such belief. If the part of the chess expert were limited to improving his pupil's play before the match the comparison would be less infelicitous...
...Faculty assistance the student speakers become mere mouthpieces through which the Faculty is heard and the debate developes into a contest between the Faculties of the two universities, not between the students. It is as if in an intercollegiate chess match each member of the two teams should have behind his chair an expert chess player to plan his moves for him; and he himself should do nothing but move the pieces from one square to another...
...eleven, although it must be said that their opponents were werk, were about as strong as the average freshman team. In spite of the wet field the end interference was, effective and the line men opened up good holes. Burden and Boal did the best work in this respect. Behind the line, Hatch ran the team with excellent judgment and played a star game himself, and Irwin-Martin and Hurley never failed to gain...