Word: extent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This life of Cyrano de Bergerac will be relished by all who have been delighted with the romantic manliness and nobility of M. Rostand's hero. The actual Cyrano, it was known from the start, had been poetically idealized by M. Rostand; but the extent of the liberties with history could not hitherto be accurately determined. In the light of the present essay, the real Cyrano turns out to have been a brawler and a bully, full of the extravagance of the early free thinkers. "Not at all the man who after overcoming a hundred assassins could turn about...
...Yale did. The chief reasons why McBride could not outkick Hallowell in the first half were that Sawin and Daly ran back his kicks for ten and fifteen yards and that Campbell tackled brilliantly under Hallowell's punts. Campbell played a perfect game and made up to a great extent for the absence of Hallowell in running down under kicks. Hallowell's kicks were long, as usual, but also erratic, and they often went outside before covering much distance...
...enthusiasm which helps to success. It would be easy to imagine what would become of college football if their interest in it should be discouraged. The undergraduate has a personal interest in the game which it is impossible that he should continue to keep to the same extent in later life. The players are his friends, his classmates or his contemporaries. Their record is a part of his college experience in which he has a very natural pride. It seems to me only just, therefore, that for his three or four years in college he should have the best opportunity...
...candidates for the Freshman eleven this year exceeded in numbers those of previous years, but were some-what inferior in playing ability. An unusual lack of heavy men existed. Now that the players have been selected for the various positions, to a certain extent, it is possible to form a definite idea of the team's ability...
There will be photographs from the various museums and buildings, but the extent of this part of the exhibit is as yet indefinite...