Word: firm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...insuperable fault with Willcox, but his falling made way for the debut of a candidate who promises well. The playing of Robinson was not a surprice to those who have watched his work throughout the last week, and many had expected him to drive the team with a firm grip, as he did. He chose his plays with a clever judgment, caught every punt that came to him, and successfully ran back the ball. The man who plays quarterback against Princeton and Yale may well be Robinson...
...applicants were represented in the hearing by Mr. Stoughton Bell '96, of the firm of Putnam; Putnam and Bell, of Boston. The Board of Registrars decided that in all of the cases except four, the ground of complaint was not established and refused to strike the names of the applicants from the voting list. The four who have been dropped are R. M. Jopling 1G., S. T. Williamson '17, D. H. Whittemore '17 and S. W. Morgan...
Careless, carefree students can not grasp in an instant the full significance of war. It took a year for the lesson to strike home to the University of Toronto. Now the students are exhibiting a firm but quiet patriotism of the highest order. War has become real to them and made their response to duty ready. If Harvard were in the same situation it would respond in the same...
...work of erecting the pedestal was completed yesterday by the firm of Coolidge and Shattuck, the same which planed the Freshman dormitories...
...with as many subjects as possible, and leave his thorough knowledge of one field to his professional training? The answer is obvious to anyone who has had practical experience. The mind that deals only with elementary work in many subjects rarely gets the vigorous training needed to acquire a firm grasp of any of them. The smatterer on leaving college is a smatterer. He has never learned anything thoroughly, and although he may do so later, his subsequent training will hardly relate backwards to illumine and deepen his knowledge of subjects that was superficial when he acquired...