Word: enough
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...greatest needs, not of a single interest, but of the whole University, is a large, comfortable club of the nature proposed. It is needed as a practical convenience. It is still more needed as a means of centralizing the life of the University. Surely these considerations have weight enough to take precedence over any purely sectional interests, even though they be as deserving of respect as the religious societies undoubtedly are. We do not wish to belittle this element of college life in the least, but with due regard to the fitness of things it seems to us eminently proper...
...rivals. There is no lack of muscle and brains with which to win. The trouble is that they are not made use of; that particular branches of activity are left to those who happen to be engaged in them at the moment. In short, there is not enough care taken to use all possible material, and when there is no material to manufacture...
...squads had enough men for each to form two teams and practice interference. Only enough men for one team from '98 appeared, and these went through signal practice by themselves...
...preliminary work consisted principally of breaking through and running off the signals. There was the same lack of snap in the running of the backs, and the quarters have not yet mastered the codes well enough to keep the plays running very rapidly...
...danger that the men themselves, selected partly on their past record, and treated with a novel tenderness, shall let up in their individual efforts, and fall into fatally listless habits. The other is that the coaches, unconsciously influenced by the same radical change, shall fail to infuse enough energy into the signal practice and short line-ups. After all the real object of the change is this-to get the chance to train the same men together until they can be turned into a perfect machine. Of course then, if practice be short, it must be so much the better...