Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other and main end of tonight's meeting will be to focus and get across to the team the confidence which the undergraduate body has in its ability to master the Bull-dog. A wide-spread panic which followed the game on Saturday has given place, through the process of sober second thought, to a calmer and more reasonable frame of mind. Fortunately this does not nor will not approach over-confidence. Yale never met Harvard without the firm determination to win, and there is no reason to believe that its playing on Saturday will be in any degree inferior...
...Critics. The New York Herald: " He [Mr. Dell] means well, and, doubtless, he thinks he is telling the whole truth, instead of a part of it, and that part out of focus. . . . A book of altogether admirable workmanship, of much keen insight, but also one that is dangerously askew...
...complaint made by District Attorney O'Brien about the lack of police protection in the Stadium seems out of focus with the facts in the case. In the first place it shows a misjudgment of the usual football audience. The number of spectators who are not attached either to Harvard or its opponent is relatively small. If the complaint is directed aganist the spectators directly interested, it shows an entirely unwarranted mistrust. Students, graduates, and their friends come to the game to witness a friendly contest in a spirit of mutual politeness, not to indulge in a free...
Russia?no longer famine-stricken, no more a disease focus...
...focus of interest last week was the annual Presbyterian General Assembly at Indianapolis. William Jennings Bryan, a layman from Florida, was nominated for Moderator. Opposed to him were two liberal ministers, and the president of a college where evolution is openly taught. On the first ballot Bryan led, and Dr. Silsley, the liberal minister of Oakland, Cal., transferred his votes to Dr. Walker, of Los Angeles, for the second ballot. On the second ballot, Mr. Bryan polled 421 votes, with only 439 necessary to election. Dr. Wishart, president of Wooster, Ohio, College, took all the liberal votes except...