Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...winning game cannot be built up merely by offering opposing teams chances to make errors and then profiting by them. Harvard committed three glaring errors on Saturday. But Princeton could not manufacture a score out of any one of the three. That only shows that Princeton is still deficient in a genuine winning attack. On Saturday holding in the line cost two 15-yard penalties at critical moments. A year ago fumbles twice ended what promised to be successful marches toward Harvard's goal line...
Showing a versatile attack and an impregnable defence, Brown was able to decisively defeat Yale Saturday by a 21 to 6 score. But this defeat cannot be regarded as a just criterion of Yale's true strength, for the latter team, unwilling to risk its regulars, used eighteen players in the contest. These second-string men, however, were no match for the fast Brown aggregation, when open play was started...
...most orthodox and sincere Christians believe his work worse that useless. A great many atheists and kindred folk who normally look upon all religious impulse as folly, consider Mr. Sunday's work constructive because it awakens a dormant moral sense in thousands. Amid such diverse views we cannot dogmatically define the man. No doubt the wisest opinion would be that the proper adjective to describe him is "indeterminable"--whatever that...
...game a collection will be taken up for the Harvard Surgical Unit, whose members are going across the water to alleviate the sufferings of university men engaged in a more serious struggle. If all stop to think what purpose their contributions will serve, the amount of the collection cannot help being worthy of the throng of spectators. Let both Harvard and Princeton supporters, whether their particular team is ahead or not, remember the struggle in Europe and give gladly and generously...
Most men do not know their own capacities and limitations. If they did, there would be fewer misfits, fewer round pegs in square holes. The man who can tell approximately what he is worth, and then go out and make himself better, cannot help succeeding. He is the man who has learned to think before he goes to jail...