Word: coping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University lacrosse team easily defeated a team of graduates on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon by a score of 14 to 0. The graduates were in no condition to cope with a team as strong as the University is; and with no substitutes to relieve them were a quickly tired...
...first game was played on Holmes Field at Cambridge, April 28, 1877. In the previous fall rugby football was introduced at Princeton, and in order that she might cope with Harvard on more equal terms she asked postponement of the game until spring. Only four days before her game with Yale did Princeton secure from Harvard two rugby footballs, and until the Yale practice no Princetonian knew whether they should be kicked from the end or the side. Yale won the game--two goals to none...
Opposed are eleven other men, differing in that they lack that confidence to be derived from gruelling games with teams of equal weight and skill. In many ways Harvard may be Brown's equal, but we must admit that so far we have met no eleven sufficiently powerful to cope with either our attack or defence. Here surely is a weakness...
...Letts and Poles by the Y. M. C. A. Of the 105,000 inhabitants of Cambridge, 10,000, or about ten percent., are foreign speaking, and many more are foreign with American sympathies. Politically they present a very grave problem to the city with which it is impossible to cope before these people can at least speak the language. Of course the large majority of these foreigners are of a working age, and therefore can not go to the regular schools. The city maintains night schools which are able to meet to a certain degree the demand for instruction...
...forbid and penalize all combinations. These two methods are diametrically opposed, but Congress, in the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Act, has tried to reconcile them, but without success. When the Sherman Act was passed Congress was aware that an evil existed but did not know how to cope with it. The act was therefore made very vague and the courts were required to interpret it, and by them it has been made to carry too far. There can be no really intelligent legislation on the subject until the public is educated...