Word: build
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: John Roach, Shall Americans build ships? in N. Amer. Review, May 1881; Cong. Record, Feb. 26, 27 and Mar. 12, 1891; David A. Wells, Our Merchant Marine...
...nation. - (a) The experience of the civil war showed the value of ship-yards. "Ninety-days gun-boats" enabled the North to control the Southern rivers and defeat the "Merrimac." - (b) The weakness of the South was due in a large measure to her lack of being able to build ships. - (c) In case of a war with England we should be helpless...
...drawn to city life, he said, by the power found there to build up a world for oneself out of nature. All living things build themselves up out of their surroundings, but man's world is much greater and more complex than that of any animal. This new world is the product of man's reason. But can man himself be shown to be a natural product? There are arguments which point that way, but we cannot prove that human action is always in accordance with natural laws, and the results of man's action are sometimes so evil that...
...There has been no real effort to play the game yet or to develop a team. The captain has been trying his material, testing each man thoroughly, and sifting out all except such as promise to develop into 'varsity material. Once this process is completed the real work of building up a team can begin. In the meantime the men are acquiring a great deal of knowledge about the game, and when the real work begins they will be found to be much farther along than anyone had expected. What the college needs is considerable more patience and faith. Trust...
Yale has been playing foot ball now for just a week and Capt. McClung has begun to get a good idea of what material he has from which to build up a team. McClung, Heffelfinger, Wallis, S. Morrison, Barbour, Crosby, Hartwell and L. Bliss are those of the last year eleven who are back. The men who have graduated and whose places are to be filled are Rhodes, r.t.; Holcomb and Lewis, c.; Harvey and Williams, f. b., and B. Morrison, f. b. Most of the men who have come back it will be noticed are players of long standing...