Word: clings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...situation at Princeton shows the Tigers have a team which will put up a stiff fight against the University. Princeton gives the appearance of the team that is going to cling to its kicking game. Its defence is so good--and from all reports, the University will find Princeton a smarter team defensively than Cornell--that the other team will have to take chances of wearing out players by depending on the rushing game. The Tigers played no mediocre game against Dartmouth, and those who figure that Princeton must be weak because they failed to outplay the green, are wrong...
...other poets cling to more familiar methods. Mr. Cutler's heartfelt protest...
...centuries passed schools slipped from the control of the Church, and benefit of clergy was no more. But no people cling to tradition and custom as do schoolmen the world over. And so Latin, and Greek too, for that matter, remained a basic part of the usual school curriculum. And now some disrespectful and doubting inquirer stands up and asks why it is that children should spend so large a fraction of their whole school time in the technical study of languages that have been dead and buried these many years. Immediately there is a great hunting for reasons...
...have been dumped into a new system of education and must strain every power to stand with self-control the test of freedom. It takes a strong personality to weather the storms which are coming, but, once through unscathed, you have won the battle for success at Harvard. Cling to your ideals, though they seem but straws, and, if they are high ideals, you are safe...
Dean Castle finds the remedy of conditions as they stand in the appointment of younger instructors "who have gone through college with open eyes, receptive mind, and clean hands; who have appreciated temptations and withstood them--men, many of whom will not cling to teaching as a profession but who are eager to rectify in still younger men, the mistakes they themselves have made, and who are teachers because of their desire to be of service...