Word: commander
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With the team in its present crippled condition the captain must be able to command the services of every man in the University who can be of any aid to him. We are glad to say that such men are generally showing their appreciation of the situation...
...inseparable from the nature of man, and the story of Colonel Goffe at Deerfield is but a modern version of the Dioscuri and of St. James of Compostella. In my walk the other day, I saw a man sitting in the sun in front of a little cottage which commanded a pretty landscape. "You have a charming view here," said I. "Yes," he answered, "I take a great deal of pleasure in it though I cannot see it. I have long ago lost my sight, but I love to sit here and recall it, and think that...
...most wearisome prolongations of debate. He has never left a doubt in any mind of his absolute devotion to the good of the University, of his high sense of public duty as the administrator of a great trust, or of his unstinted use of every power at his command to discharge that duty efficiently...
...first team had comparatively little opportunity to show their ability in fielding. Of the infield, the work of Cook and Whittemore was sharp and clean. Stevenson was weak in throwing. Dickinson accepted all his chances. Highlands pitched the first part of the game and showed better command than in the previous practice. O'Malley supported him well until compelled to retire on account of an injury to his hand. Morton took his place. The batting of the first nine was weak, Gonterman and Cook being the only men who hit the ball at all hard. The baserunning was good, though...
...into all his works. All his figures are of a somewhat gloomy type, but all are strong and majestic. He had none of the gentler or finer qualities essential to the painter, for he was not a painter, as he himself said, but a sculptor. He had a great command of line and was probably the most wonderful draughtsman that ever lived. His subjects are almost all religious. He had many followers but none of them could give what Michael Angelo did, that is the imprint of a strong individuality, and accordingly none of them amounted to much...