Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton, Colebrook was easily the outstanding performer, and he was besides, the most valuable man on the ice. Time and again he proved to be the boy at the dyke, and of the 32 shots that rattled off his pads, skates and stick, many might well have counted without discredit to his goaltending ability. Next to him, Davis was the most active Tiger, and Hallock and Captain Wilkinson also played consistently, the latter opening the scoring, while Hallock caged the other two of Princeton's three tallies...
HALF-TOLD TALES-Henry van Dyke-Scribners ($1.50). If any man must moralize, let him be full of years and honor, and of a wit quick to sharpen points grown dull through lack of dispute. Dr. van Dyke surely qualifies under all three headings. He abjures Envy...
HENRY VAN DYKE...
...opinion of Dr. van Dyke the American college student studies too much and thinks too little; he should be allowed more time from his studies to do a little thinking. The New York Times replies in an editorial on June First that "judging from various rumors floating about, it seems all too likely that the undergraduate, as usual, would use all his liberty to have a good time and that the cause of thought would not be advanced...
...Dyke is correct in his assertion that there is too little thought in the American college of today, but the blame for that deficiency should be placed squarely on the shoulders of the undergraduate himself. There is time for thought, plenty of it, but the student dawdles and fritters away the precious hours in idleness, or pumps his head full of extra-curriculum affairs. Even Harvard, self-styled college of the thinker, is an intellectual trifler...