Word: checks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first check on the success of the Freshman team came in the Exeter game. Yale 1921 and the Princeton yearlings had defeated the school eleven by decisive scores so that an opportunity to compare the teams which were to meet in the triangular series, now ending for the University Freshmen, was offered. In the first half at Exeter, 1921 played a fast game, scoring a touchdown and apparently having the game won. The Freshmen went to pieces, however, toward the close of the game, were unable to stop the Exeter attack, and had difficulty in holding the final score...
...endangered means that the British are gaining something more than mere proof of their superiority. All terrain captured heretofore has had comparatively local importance, but this new steady drive may surprise the most pessimistic of us as well as the Germans. Further progress on the same line is a check on the submarine campaign and a step toward victory...
...Since they didn't cost him much in their native land he is willing to sacrifice them without gain. As you try a smoke from the top and find it very fair, or upon feeling the softness of the genuine scotch mixture, you are tempted. In five minutes the check is signed; you are alone with your prize...
Then comes the stamp tax on bank checks. This is tyranny indeed, and we can well understand what Patrick Henry was so huffy about back in colonial days. For this gruelling measure intends to charge us for every check we write. How many times have we sought to impress our creditors around Harvard Square with what affluence we were possessed! We thought nothing of presenting a check for an account of thirty-nine cents ten months overdue. Our signatures did look well on those pieces of evidence. But this mus all a thing of the good old past...
These statistics show what a prominent part Harvard men took in the War of the Rebellion. For a time, indeed, the College authorities attempted to check the martial enthusiasm, but when it became apparent that the war would be a long and serious one, their opposition was withdrawn...