Word: closely
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...year ago, or even eliminating it altogether and keeping the onside kick and ten-yard rule. What was needed in the game was primarily to lessen value of possession of the ball and this the ten-yard rule achieved. With its introduction there went out all the close hammering mass plays which were good for two or three yards on a down but no more. The American collegian, whether player or spectator, does not care for a game in which the element of chance is paramount. He likes to see or play a game where hard work counts...
...response by some member of the Council; annual business meeting of the Council, consisting of a discussion on two questions: "Our State Campaign, with the motto, 'Some Church Responsible for Each Square Mile,'" and "The Readjustment of Missionary Work--How Far Necessary and Possible?" The afternoon meeting will close with an address by the Rev. R. G. Boville, national director of Vacation Bible Schools, on "A New and Needed Line of Co-operation...
...fund which provides for these lectures was presented to the University in 1898 by Mrs. William Belden Noble, in memory of her husband, an Episcopal clergyman of the class of 1885, and of Phillips Brooks, with whom Mr. Noble was in close sympathy...
...develop the team. No team can hope to win which one week plays along one line and the next along another line of play. The coaching staff of this team feels the same influences over a somewhat longer period. It must develop by experience and by close touch with conditions, not for one year but for several. The coaching of a large team is far too intricate a matter for any one to master in one year. The coaches must have an intimate knowledge not from hearsay, but from personal experience, and must have the help of men who have...
...last dinner of the Harvard Engineering Society the topic of an organization of alumni engaged in engineering was broached and we now learn that its formation is practically assured. Surely there can be nothing but advantage to be gained from an association of this sort. Its close affiliation with the Engineering Society will bring the men leaving College to engage in engineering work into closer touch with the graduates who have preceded them, and if the organization be properly conducted the novice will feel that he can look for advice to older men who have begun where he is beginning...