Word: drowne
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...quarter of the men at Oxford row or teach the novices to row. Four or five hundred of them go to the river every afternoon although the Isis is hardly wide enough for a good throw with a cat and hardly deep enough to drown her. Let no Anglophobia persuade us to despise a good game because it is English. We ought to be willing to learn of the Patagonians if they can teach us. There are hundreds of men in our dear University who are tired of the fun of watching star players. How did Theodore Roosevelt take...
...Thomas M. Drown, president of Lehigh University, died Wednesday in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania...
...Drown was born in Philadelphia, March 19, 1842. He was a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania but practiced medicine only a short time. He studied chemistry at Yale, and was instructor in metallurgy at Harvard from 1869 to 1871. From 1874 to 1881 he was professor of chemistry at Lafayette, and at the Institute of Technology from 1885 to 1895. Since 1895 he has been president of Lehigh University. In 1897-98 Dr. Drown was president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers...
...spontaneous cheering should be seconded by effective leading, and should express with speed and strength of sound the approval and support of the University. Cheering of a good play which is perceptibly weaker in sound than that of the opponents is worse than none. Prolonged cheering, intended to drown out the other side, is bad sportsmanship, because confusing to the opposing team, and bad policy, because confusing...
Organized cheering serves several purposes. At Harvard cheers are given to welcome an opposing team, to applaud a good play, and to encourage our own team, but never to rattle an opposing pitcher or to drown out the signals of an opposing quarterback. These first three uses of cheering are perfectly proper, but when cheering is used for no other purpose than to disconcert an opposing team, the game, whatever it may be, ceases to be a test of skill of the two teams, and becomes a general contest, in which cheering plays much too important a part. While Harvard...