Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just so much the more, then, is Yale University fortunate in its recent acquisition of the new Harkness Memorial. The group of buildings have been exceptionally handled in every phase of workmanship; even the fact that they cover a city block does not detract from their gracefulness, divided as they are into separate quadrangles and courts after the fashion of Oxford and old Cambridge. What is more interesting still, these same buildings, besides being excellent examples of architectural beauty, are consigned to a useful existence as dormitories. In this way yale's problem of housing all the students in college...
Jabish Holmes was the busiest man on the ice, making exactly 40 clean stops in the course of the three sessions, and being saved countless times by the smashing defensive work of Owen and Humphrey. The Newton lad especially proved a stumbling block for the Unicorn forwards, tearing out of scrimmage with the puck time after time when his goal was menaced...
...those university trained men, practical experience is stimulating because they see so many opportunities for improvement, and it is sobering because they find so many unlooked for obstacles of a practical nature which block or retard the application of theoretically perfect ideas. It may and usually does take several years of practical work to steady the theoretical knowledge, but once the proper balance is attained there can be no doubt that the man with the broadly trained mind is more valuable to a railroad than another man with equal native ability but without the wider vision. A judicious mixture...
...same methods of attack and defense are taught that Jack Dempsey, Jack Britton, Benny Leonard, Johnny Kilbane and other champions had to learn in the more rugged school of Give and Take when they were youngsters breaking in. The same left jab, the same right cross, the same block and the same parry are a part of our system, but they are learned and practiced by the majority, not with the thought of achieving any championship honors, but with the idea of attaining genuine exercise. When one considers the footwork, arm action, body movement, bending and straightening that one goes...
...game entirely, or at least to have the play made under conditions which would bring 22 men into action instead of only two offensive players, and a few half-hearted defenders clustered under the goal posts who knew they hadn't a chance in a thousand to block the kick...