Word: drop
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unsuccessful forward passes and fumbles by Bates, the team had no opportunity to demonstrate its ability to advance the ball by consistent rushing. Both touchdowns came as a result of fumbles by Bates close to their own goal, and Milholland would not have been called on to try a drop kick had not the University team been penalized for holding directly under the goal posts...
...crews. It was he who secured the Yale rowing quarters at Gales Ferry, and it was he who got the funds to build the new George Adee Memorial Boat-house. Mr. Curtiss, therefore, has done a lot for Yale rowing, and Yale men appreciate his services. He will not drop out of Yale rowing by any means...
Harvard was one of the first colleges to drop compulsory chapel attendance and religious study. This fact is greatly to be commended, but like many desirable things, it also may lead to extremes. One of these is the very obvious lack of knowledge and indifference to the English Bible. It would be no exaggeration to say that the average undergraduate can discuss the poetry of Swinburne and Rossetti more intelligently than he can the Testaments. This apparent ignorance is not due to irreligion. On the contrary, Harvard is a bulwark of that true religion which...
...many men are shiftless and ineffective in their last College year as in their first. After three years of undergraduate work, most Seniors have their degrees within easy reach. They have tried the athletics which attract them, and unless they have already "made good," their natural tendency is to drop out of further competition. This same disinclination to undergo any additional work is equally true of other lines of endeavor; scholastic, literary, and dramatic...
...change in the usual schedule for the University crew is under consideration. It is proposed to drop the April race with Annapolis, and row Cornell six, instead of four, weeks before the Yale race. The new plan has the unqualified advantage of allowing Coach Wray to make the Cornell contest an end in itself. This has not before been possible owing to the proximity in the past of the two and four-mile races. With the strain of the long course at New London only a month away it has been considered impracticable to adopt temporarily the sustained high stroke...