Word: doned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard is now open. What will it teach? For fifty years our American professors and students have been in ardent pursuit of German ideals of scholarship; they have tortured themselves to attain German thoroughness, Gruendlichkeit; they have taken all the arts and sciences and done them over in the likeness of a German image. We have profited by this, for it has checked our native love for the hasty and impermanent ways of the pioneer...
Great aid was lent Americans in securing passage home. The act of the Holland-American Line steamer, the "New Amsterdam," in stopping to pick up 500 tourists in England is a good example of what was done in this direction. It is a matter of pride to note the ready participation of Harvard men in the work...
Scoring kicking, of course, is done only from the ground--both the placement kick and the drop-kick being made in this way--and need not be considered in extense in a treatment of the general use of the kicking game. Punting is the thing, in that it makes openings for the running game, or retrieves blunders made by the running game...
...that particular bit of punting has since been able to gain the whip hand over both Yale and Princeton through his pupils. He has done wonders with his running game, his drop kickers--notably Brickley--have achieved reputations, and there is a sound basis for everything he does; but it is curious that football men in general, and the coaches who face his team in particular, do not seem to realize that to beat Harvard and Haughton it is necessary to consider Harvard and Haughton's vital, and to my mind correct, principle--which is not drop kicking or placement...
...High Tension Laboratory has been completed in outer construction, but a large amount of interior preparation must be done before it will be ready for use. Of the other operations in this vicinity, there are open the Museum of Ethmology, connecting the Peabody and University Museums; the T. Jefferson Coolidge and the Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratories...