Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...well as charity begins at home. And where can we be better "reconstructed" in our ideas of the possibilities of the English language than by listening to Professor Copeland? May his readings continue until the "Letters from France" and the "Hero's Couch" are but memories of the distant past...
...result of the circulation of the resolution on the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations, 1757 signatures of members of the University were obtained. These represent students from all departments of the University, although some of the graduate schools distant from Cambridge were not actively canvassed...
...Harvard will have already contributed. Those who have lost touch, who have settled far away from Cambridge where the name Harvard is scarcely heard, will be the men on whom the Endowment Drive must look for aid in the future. What better way to stir old memories in these distant graduates than to send an undefeated Harvard football team through their country! -- a team which has beaten Yale! The psychological effect should be tremendous. For, after all, the eleven will represent the College in the West; its merits will be our merits...
...work. Furthermore, regular linesmen were not then in vogue, and the spectators were left to guess as to whether the team with the ball had one, two or ten yards to go, or whether it was first, second or third down. In a word, to the spectator in the distant stand the game was a jumbled mass of men, and only the closest student of football knew what was going on. Hence the idea conceived by Mr. Irwin...
With the Princeton game but a week distant, it is probable that Coach Fisher will save his men as much as possible by frequent substitutions. In the early games this fall the visitors have shown no great strength, and should find it difficult to stop the Crimson today...