Word: displays
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...backfield was made up entirely of new men, who, as might have been expected, were uncertain and did not display much team work, although they played hard and ran fairly well. The plays were all simple with the exception of two forward passes, and the lack of variety did not give them a chance to show their real ability. The defense used during yesterday's game, four men in the line and the ends playing out, was moderately successful, but was hardly given a fair trial...
...audience which delighted in applauding her. The Olivia of Miss Josephine Victor was marked by warmth and a keen perception of the romantic phases of the character--a conception which not only gave the part its true dramatic value, but which offered the actress a chance to display her utterly fascinating personality...
...apreciative audience. In addition to the commendable variety of the program, it was unusually interesting to have so large a space devoted to compositions by members of the University. While the respective performers gave evidence of unusual technical and interpretative development, it is in composition that the department can display most successfully the actual musical vitality of its students...
...Probably that is for the best, for this University has always stood for freedom of thought and action. But certain observances which exert an unconscious influence upon all who live under them are not inconsistent with true freedom. When opportunities for these arise, let us not be ashamed to display an interest in them, whether the interest is prompted by mere sentiment or by a deeper realization of that which lies behind the public expression...
...game of the season, while Harvard still has to look forward to its big contest. We realize that nothing we can say will lead them to abandon their convictions, but we expect our team to gradually disillusionize them this afternoon. For several weeks the University team has failed to display the playing of which it is capable. We have the coaches and the players who can produce a strong team, and now that the season is drawing to a close we look to them to demonstrate to the skeptics that they can play as well from the start as when...