Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Similarly, every type of person, every touchy weakness--of "us mortals," is picked up, held to public gaze, ridiculed and thrown in the discard. It is certain that one person alone would not enjoy this play; but when comfortably seated in the midst of a large audience, it is as delightful as it could be, for then one is sure that it is always the 'other person" at whom the missile is aimed. It seems to be somewhat of a case of "You can make some of the people wince all of the time, all of the people some...
...Furthermore, it is the intention to conduct a cooperative course in more than merely the name. Therefore meddling is farthest from the intention of the School. If a student has reason to think that any question might be considered annoying to his superiors, he is always asked to discard such a question. Every man from the School is expected to be a 100 percent workman while on the job, and of course any connection with the College is not permitted to interfere with this purpose...
...brief time without missing some very interesting proceeding on the field of play. I am certain in my own mind that anyone who attended a game and was compelled to rely upon a program in order to determine who had made some unusual play on the field would discard the program inside of five minutes after the game started, because the spectator would have discovered that, during the time he was endeavoring to locate some number and the name of some player, the ball would have moved on the field and he would have missed enough to make him give...
...situation should convince anyone that it is not possible for any coaching staff to develop a brand new offense annually which is sound, scientific and efficient. The general development of football will be retarded, if each year must find the work of the previous year thrown into the discard and an attempt made to start anew. Every team in the country has a running play in which the fullback carries the ball through some point in the line. It is not every team, however, that has so far perfected the play of the other ten men that the fullback...
...that the Harvard football record of the past ten years has attained sufficient success to earn for those, who have given their time and thought to its development, all reasonable protection, and I do not believe that it is necessary for Harvard, in order to be good sportsmen, to discard the results of this ceaseless effort. A football play cannot be patented but I see no reason why the product of the brain should not be given all reasonable safe-guards...