Word: blows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Furthermore, there is a very decided blow at parochialism in the election of a non-Yale man as president of Yale. It does not follow that Dean Angell will be a better president because he is not a Yale graduate, but it is unquestionably true that this fact will do much to dispel any impression of inbred localization of view. There were Yale men before the university corporations who undeniably would have been passable or even good presidents. That the final choice fell upon a man without this sentimental plea to back him cannot but make the country feel that...
...first place it is against the Principles of the college to use propaganda among the schools, and in the same way, when a fellow gets to Yale he is not "babied." For this very reason men who have been big at prop school receive somewhat of a blow, and are inclined to find fault, but this same fellow the next year will have changed his opinion. He made clear that Yale students had to work about as hard as any others; not more, and not less, but one thing was emphasized in particular, namely that a Freshman did not have...
...Swan, Guenther, Howell and Dean, of last year's University crew, have reported, but it is doubtful whether Howell will be able to row this year, as he is in the Medical School, and will have little time to devote to crew work. His loss will be a serious blow to the crew...
...Yale team has been handicapped by lack of practice, having to do all of its preliminary work in the Ice Palace in Philadelphia. The discontinuance of the New York Arena, one of the finest ice surfaces in the East, was a heavy blow to the Yale hockey team, and it now looks as if the Elis would have to hold most of their practices out of town...
...first blow is for the critics, whom he divides into four classes, and then by means of brightly entertaining dialogue, levels them with the very meanest worm that ever crawled the earth's surface. It seems that Shaw took particular delight in "roasting" the critics of whom he has always had small opinion. It was he who once said "Produce me your best critic, and I will criticise his head off." He does. But one wonders if this clan does not like it; if the critics, so often feared, or forgotten, by the playwrights, do not enjoy the play...