Word: due
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University football team yesterday afternoon, no preliminary work was given other than an unusually long signal drill to better the running-off of plays. The line-up against the second eleven was again long, lasting over 30 minutes. The University team scored five touchdowns, but this was due in a measure to the fact that the ball was several times arbitrarily given to the University team for the purpose of developing a stronger offense. The second eleven was as a whole not very strong, but was several times able to hold the University team for downs. The worst feature...
...causes of these variations are due to economic conditions, constitutional vices, and to the habits and traditions of the people. Traditions of free governments are slow to form and quick to perish, which renders it all the more necessary to make and maintain such traditions, essential as they are. A party on coming into power ought to have a definite doctrine and should strive for the ultimate welfare of the country. There has been a decline in the qualities of the legislatures in all governments during the last forty years. This, to some extent, has been due to the great...
...weakness of the Harvard team was due principally to the ends, who with the exception of Montgomery, were practically useless. The playing of Filley questions the policy of using in important games a man who has not has more practice with the team. Leary was equally incapable. Brill, at left tackle, played a good offensive game, but though commendably active on the defense, allowed many of the plays he should have stopped to go right over him. Oveson, at right tackle, put up a remarkably good game considering the fact that he was obliged to play outside his own position...
...progress of the world is largely due, Bishop Carpenter said, to great personalities, and Jesus Christ was one of these. Unless we remember that he was also a great religious personality, we cannot understand him or appreciate his works. Religion, moreover, is a power in human life so great that no investigation of religious subjects which does not take cognizance of it will ever be satisfactory to a modern audience. We cannot have a religion without a theology, and we cannot estimate the value of our own theology without comparing it with the theologies of others...
...weeks in any one academic year. Students in the Boston departments of the University and unmarried officers of instruction or administration may insure to themselves the above-named benefits, by paying the annual fee of four dollars on the day on which the first advance payment of tuition is due...