Word: enough
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...choice of captains of major sport teams in preparatory schools is also overwhelming for the University. In next year's Freshman class there will be enough school football captains to compose a complete football team, with one substitute, providing each man could play a different position. There will also be eight baseball, five hockey, five crew, and four track captains. Yale will receive seven baseball, five football, three track, one hockey, and two crew captains, while Princeton gets three football, and only one each of baseball, crew, hockey and track captains...
...loves the verse of contrast, the skipping danseuse edging back and forth across the stage, hopelessly beloved by the violinist; and the shadowy silent lady, in spirit skipping after him. Somehow you see them both, and are annoyed to think that people so commonplace should have woes serious enough to be admitted to the Advocate...
...moved to ask, is this public stigma fastened upon the Philistine who has never studied Latin, or upon that more unfortunate person who failed to study it enough? The punishment meted out in Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" has always seemed to us eminently fitting; yet we had never thought the mere non-Latinist deserved such a brand. But perhaps it is for the benefit of the public. Peter Barnum said the public liked to be fooled; and we certainly fool the public with our pompous scientific degree. Meanwhile, the initiated know that the yellow crow's-foot indicates "not knowledge...
Garritt opened the way for the visitor's lone run by passing Berry. Fripp then juggled Parmer's hit long enough to allow Berry to reach third. Parker fanned, but Morse, batting for Spear, knocked a grounder to Nash, who threw Parmer out at second. The "first and third double steal," one of the University's own pet plays, followed and gave Vermont...
...made it certain that, with him in the box, the candidates would be unable to score; so he was relieved of his duties to give the opposing side a chance. For the same reason an editor dropped a fly every now and then. The result was a game close enough to be interesting...