Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Captain Sheldon of Yale, yesterday answered the letter sent him by Captain Merwin of the University of California track team, asking entrance to the contest between Yale and Princeton, expressing his regret that the Yale team cannot give its consent. Captain Sheldon says that the arrangements for the dual games between Princeton and Yale have been completed and that he does not conslder it wise to change the meet to a triangular contest...
...there been no freshman crew coach appointed, we of the class would like to know? The crew has now been on the water for more than a week, and as yet no regular coach has been appointed and meanwhile the men cannot help doing many things wrong simply because they have no one to coach them properly. It does not seem fair to the crew that they should have no experienced man to help them improve particularly when, unlike the upper class crews, the freshman crew competes with representatives of other colleges, and should be considered as second only...
...Storey closed with words of good advice. The world, he said, was full of good things, and there is nothing in the world which a man cannot have if he is willing to pay the world's price for it. The coin in which he must pay is his life. Pecuniary fortune a man can lose several times, but life can only be lost once. Every man, therefore, should be careful of his life and remember that the country needs men today just as much...
...first called out, while little attention has been paid to the freshmen since they went on the river. To be sure the 'varsity coxswain has several times coached from the stern of the boat, but this sort of instruction for an untrained crew is not very effective. A coxswain cannot see the faults of the men in the bow without upsetting the trim of the boat. The only men he can criticise to advantage are stroke and seven. He can tell perhaps that the boat is not going as it should, but he cannot know who is at fault. What...
...idea of the Deity was far more metaphysical than religious: his God was an Eternal Essence. He believed the first attribute of the soul to be that by which men and beings are endowed with life. But he also considered that the soul had a purely irrational part which cannot think...