Word: best
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interest at Princeton seems to center now on the freshman squad. The eleven averages 165 pounds. The line averages 178 pounds, the backfield 157. The outlook on the whole appears to be the best in several years...
Professor Perry read from a letter writen by a mother to her son in Christ's Church College, England, over 200 years ago, the key-note of which was "methodize your hours so as best to improve them." The advice was to have some system for everything in daily life and live up to it religiously...
...Harvard man. And he has gone wrong. We should be glad that it is regarded as a matter of such astounding interest and universal import by our newspapers that a man who has ever felt the influence of Harvard should ever be less than the best...
There will not be much of a team this year, as Harvard teams go. The team will have none of the polish of a smooth war machine. That does not matter. It will, unless some great cataelysm has occurred, be a good team, for it will do, its best...
...left in the College must put a good team on the field; not simply a winning team, but a clean team, a hard-fighting team, and gentlemen. That is in justification to ourselves, lest men say that the best have gone, and that there are none brave enough to fill the place they left vacant...