Word: beset
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...team is not playing quite the same game as in the earlier part of the season. The falling off is not to be accounted for by the over-training, over-confidence, or general listlessness which characterize the ordinary slump. It is due rather to the obstacles which have beset the team since the second Princeton game. First, there are the injuries to Briggs and MacLaughlin, which, however good the substitutes, cannot fail to have a bad psychological effect on the team. Next in importance is the fact that three out of the seven scheduled games have had to be cancelled...
...less important football games. The point brought up may have been somewhat obscure--indeed ability to interpret the rules accurately requires very careful study--but it only emphasizes the need of experienced men to act in these important capacities. In urging this, however, we realize the difficulties which beset the coaches and managers of class and second football teams. They have no central board to assign them officials, and many men who have the experience necessary to officiate are unwilling to assume the responsibility of enforcing the rules with which they have not familiarized themselves...
Professor Nelson pointed out in great detail the difficulties in political life which beset the country and those which Mr. Curtis had to face. Under the present regulations, continued the speaker, there are over one hundred and seventy-two thousand persons, in the classified service list who are subject to civil service examination, but there still remain some seventy-five thousand offices throughout the country which are the spoil of the Senate...
...case of the granting of sweaters, medals, photographs, etc. The Committee has restricted its donations in this respect as overgenerous, and yet, though the minor teams and Freshmen have to pay for themselves, the annual expense to the common treasury comes to nearly $900. We are thus continually beset by legitimate, but numerous and over increasing demands upon our resources. These resources are supplied by gate money, chiefly of the football games, and in a very small degree by the subscriptions of the undergraduates. The average of the undergraduate subscriptions for all university teams, major and minor put together...
...Panama Canal." The lecturer outlined the history of the Isthmian canal project, pointing out the various routes that have been suggested and comparing the Panama route with that of Nicaragua. He explained the work that has already been done on both canals and showed the engineering problems that beset their construction. Captain Fuller also described the scenery of the country and the character and life of its inhabitants, He dwelt particularly on the towns along the routes of canals, Colon, Panama and Greytown...