Word: coping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...deserving of the highest recognition. He succeeded in building up an alert, aggressive and clever eleven which was able to defeat team after team of superior weight and strength. Although the new rules have favored the crushing attack of heavy teams, Coach Haughton has taught comparatively light players to cope with this disadvantage through recourse to their greater speed and by alertness to profit by opponents' errors. For five years now the training of the football team has rested upon Mr. Haughton's able shoulders, and each year he has done the work of a master-coach...
...efficiency than in any other previous year, but also by the fact that Harvard is considerably in advance of other colleges in the efficiency and scope of its Social Service work. Cornell has only five men engaged in Boys' Club work, but this small number is sufficient to cope with the needs of a small town like Ithaca. One hundred men take part in settlement work at Pennsylvania. Princeton has ninety men in social service work and this number seems sufficient for the town of Princeton. Yale has three hundred and fifty social workers including men doing Sunday School work...
Although the report does show a decidly unfavorable condition in dollars and cents, we realize that the present management has had great difficulties with which to cope. We believe that we now possess a system of athletics for the many, of which everyone must approve. To establish a policy of rigid economy in all its departments should be the continual aim of the Athletic Association...
...therefore, when we see such a thing as the intercollegiate architectural competition, which has now been established through the generosity of Mr. Lloyd Warren of New York. This spring Harvard men will not only have to compete with other colleges in rowing, track, and baseball, but they must also cope with Columbia, Cornell, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Technology in architecture. Such intercourse ought to stimulate a feeling of companionship with other colleges, a fresh interest in architecture, and a new loyalty for Harvard in a new field...
...season began with absolutely no promise of a punter of even mediocre ability. However, kickers have been developed who have managed to cope with their opponents. The punts of the Dartmouth players do not average long distances nor are they extraordinary in character, but nevertheless, they have proved to be dangerous, with the ends getting down the field as fast as they do. This was strikingly shown in the Princeton game, when the Tiger ends were unable to run back any distance the punts of Llewellyn and Morey...