Word: corbin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...university football, the most interesting event of the week was the reunion dinner of the championship football team of 1888. These men met at the Hotel Taft on Wednesday evening and enjoyed a banquet which stead far into the night. The host of the evening was William H. Corbin'89 captain of the famous team which scored a total of 698 points without being scored upon...
...takes the breaking of eggs for the making of 'Hamlets'," remarks Mr. Corbin '92 in the current Century. We could mention some other things that broken eggs make. Which is quite beside the point...
After reading Mr. Corbin's article on "The Struggle for College Democracy," you may have a definite and coherent impression of something won from an indefinite and incoherent source. All that we are sure of, however, is that your eyes will be opened to some things about Harvard that you never knew before and that you will have read a very interesting outline of the Freshman Dormitories. Did you know that we have a system of social-climbing, called swiping? Our fathers and elder brothers had it; but along with so many other traditions, it is out-dated...
...disappointed most in Mr. Corbin's failure to include in his article a large enough portion of optimism over what we now have in the line of democracy. To our way of thinking, there is something encouraging, indeed, inspiring, in the sight of the dozens of men who each year rise from the College ranks; and, while we grant that much more can be done to raise College Democracy even farther above world democracy than it now is, we insist that it should not be judged, with slighting attention to the existing hopeful situation, by the standards of twenty...
...only one about which there is little doubt as Cornish is a clever player in running the team and carrying the ball. Ainsworth, Knowles, Wilson, Cornell, Castles, and Pumpelly are, in order, the first six men to fill the backfield positions. With the possible exception of Corbin, Captain Ketcham is undoubtedly Yale's greatest centre in the history of the game. He is the first centre rush to captain since Corbin's time, and is fully as resourceful as that famous captain. Cooney is out of the game temporarily, and possibly for the year, because of a wrenched knee...