Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposing defense, but both his scoring bid and the rebound shot were stopped by Silverberg. Gibson was sent to the penalty box for crosschecking, and the Crimson launched a fierce assault on the weakened Terrier line. A lightning bit of passwork, Clark to Hamlen to Clark nearly netted a counter for Harvard, but Gregory, breaking up another passing game between Scott and Durant, carried the puck the entire length of the rink, but his hard shot caromed off Morrill's skate. Late in the period the Crimson skaters consistently pierced the defense line, and missed scores by inches...
Hubbard cites ten specific cases of injury, but he does not and necessarily cannot prove that they were the result of "dirty" football. Already denials have appeared from men like Treat of Princeton whose opinion is as reliable as Hubbard's. 'There will undoubtedly be more such denials and counter-denials, and the good intentions of Harvard's former tackle will be submerged in a flood of angry publicity which will lead nowhere. "Dirty" football cannot be proved by individual opinion and accusation, by slow movies, or any other such method, because there is always another, and equally good side...
Omitting the vague point as to what constitutes public service, the objector may counter with other equally salient arguments. Many who receive scholarships fail to attain any great wealth on graduation. This fact, however, has nothing to do with their value as men entitled to the fellowship of educated men. Success, as it has often been pointed out, is more than a matter of dollars and cents. Men who are in every way worthy of scholarships may never be in a position to repay the loan To deprive them of the grant would be to lend an unnecessarily materialistic atmosphere...
...Roman Church as to the sacredness of marriage. . . . What right has a Vatican court to pass upon the validity of marriage between members of another communion, solemnized in a Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, under the laws of the U. S. . . . There is much evidence which runs counter to the decision. . . . That any woman of middle age, after years of married, life, should be willing to swear that her parents sold her for worldly gain, and against her will, is a scandal. . . ." He came to his evident point: "If couples who have lived years in wedlock can procure annulments...
Campus Character. George E. Tinker, operator of Jimmie's Lunch nearby the Harvard Yard, won a bet from two Harvard undergraduates last week. They presented him with a quart of gin, bet he could not drink it down. He won, fell under the counter in agony, died later without naming the losers...