Word: getting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...place the year before, third in the intercollegiate meet the two preceding years, and second in the 100-yard dash in the dual meet last year. The loss of P. C. Lockwood '07, who won the 100-yard dash in the dual meet and was the only man to get a place in the sprints in the intercollegiate games last spring, will be felt severely, as there is no man at present, able to win a second place in these events. Men who should develop into good sprinters by spring are L. Watson '10, E. V. B. Parke...
...consider the power of the human will in two phases, its early condition of negative obedience, and its later phase of positive service. In the school of obedience we get the training for out later period of service. But this obedience must not be mere acquiescence, but whole-souled acceptance of the judgment of another. In later life this sort of obedience merges insensibly into the power of command...
...efficient coaching system, such as the appointment of a football committee of old players, or the retention of our present coach as administrator and securing for field coach a member of the last team, or, as in the rowing system, a trained professional, instinctively able to pick men and get the best work out of them, will be a step towards victory over Yale. But even such a coaching machine as Yale's could not bring about our victory over a college which can put not one eleven into a game, but almost two. If we will win, we must...
...Next get an advisory coach who shall always be near at hand, ever ready to prevent us from deviating the slightest from the policy adopted in the near in- ture. The change must be a radical one, and I shall not begin to point out the many faults shown on Soldiers Field this year. They must have been perfectly plain to everybody...
...bass viol. He finally puts into the mouth of his chief speaker an expression of confidence in this triumph which his readers will hardly share. The characters are flimsy, the narrative is not well articulated, and the style is crude. If one must quote Ger- man, one ought to get it straight; and I, for my part, should think twice before alleging that an "ice-water pitcher" was among the wedding presents of a German youth betrothed to the daughter of a Delicatessenhaendler. Mr. K. B. Townsend, on the contrary, has given us in his short story, entitled...