Word: falle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fall of 1920. I had made an application for entrance to Princeton and was told that on the following Monday I would be assigned a room. My schedule was all made out. That night at Princeton, I visited the rooms of some Andover friends, one of them a Princeton varsity player. Knowing my interest in the game, and my intention for coming out for the squad at Princeton, the talk turned to that subject. My brother Jim, in the Yale-Princeton game of the previous year, had had his nose severely pummelled, three ribs broken, his leg kicked, and bruised...
...treat more human, that they bring back a sense of balance, that they tear away the clouds of sanctified hokum which still surround such a figure as "The Martyr President" Harding, who died of eating crab-meat out of season to the end that all who exploited him Doheny, Fall, Sinclair, et al, should not be punished but should have everlasting freedom from justice...
Crew work this year is being conducted on a plan somewhat different from that of previous years. The underlying idea is to give every man every possible opportunity to demonstrate his ability. With this in mind, there was no effort made last fall to grade the crews. There were some fourteen crews on the University squad at the beginning of fall rowing. These crews had several races of various distances in which every man had an opportunity to show what he could do. Towards the end of the season, a very indefinite ranking of the crews was attempted. Then followed...
Work this spring will be conducted along the same lines as prevailed this fall. There will be no attempt to grade University crews until absolutely necessary. This will probably be a few weeks before the first race. As has been said the purpose of this is to give every man a chance to prove his ability. He will also give the coaches an opportunity to pick up a man here and there who might conceivably be overlooked if a University squad were chosen when crew first begins...
...first few minutes after the fall of the puck neither sextet could gain the upper hand. Presently Terrier scoring bids began to rattle off Morrill's stick and pads as Nelson, Gregory, Viano and Lawless made repeated sallies on the Crimson net. The Harvard guardian bore the brunt of this assault alone, and his great work in front of the cage staved off what appeared certain defeat for Coach Bigelow...