Word: foils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...luck and reassures the undergraduate that more people pass than fail in every examination. They are a necessary evil and must be taken in a philosophic way. The hour exams, are merely a diversion invented by the faculty to break the monotony of recitations. The best way to foil these intellectual monsters is to pass their tests. Let us then make ready...
...winning seven dual meets in succession, twice from Columbia and Pennsylvania, and once from Springfield Training School, Bowdoin, and New York City College. This remarkable series, of victories is in part accounted for by the fact that all the Yale fencers are experienced veterans in the use of the foil...
...Wright belongs to the best tradition. His review of Mr. Wheelock's recent volume is courageous and discriminating, and remarkably well written. It makes Mr. J. C. Macdonough's article on Emerson, itself a creditable piece of work, seem commonplace. But it hardly needs a foil to set off the astounding performance on Mr. Mackaye's "Uriel" which closes the number. One not infrequently finds in undergraduate publications evidence of a kind of verbal intoxication, the result of some youth's finding a fount of critical terms, and drinking too much before he knew how strong it was--with unseemly...
...Owen Johnson of Yale was pressagent for Mr. Dink Stover at Lawrenceville; Mr. Stover is now taking a swift trip through Mr. Johnson's alma mater, and is the foil for caustic arraignment of undergraduate ignorance. It was so heated that many gentlemen of college extraction took exception to it, and recently the "Sun" interviewed him. Mr. Johnson reiterated wildly and at some length that he was right; that the general ignorance and utter lack of acquaintance with culture of the average American undergraduate was almost tragic. He waved his arms, and said he believed, apropos of the time-honored...
...judges were Breed, national foil champion, G. C. Hass, Yale '08, and Pitt, captain of the 1911 Columbia team...