Word: givens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...into a game bears a message to the team, and when, as sometimes is the case, the only reason for a change of players is the opportunity for giving instructions to the quarterback, there is a very evident departure from the intent of the rule. Frequently, too, instructions are given as in baseball by the position of a coach or player on the bench. Given two teams of equal strength and equal equipment in the way of plays, and the modern football game thus becomes a contest of brains between two football strategists, in which the players are like...
...music for the three performances of "The Scarecrow," to be given by the Dramatic Club on December 7, 9, and 11, will be provided by the Pierian Sodality Orchestra. The opening number will be a dedication prologue, "The Scarecrow," written especially for the Dramatic Club by C. D. Clifton '12, leader of the orchestra. Unlike the overture to "The Promised Land," composed last fall by P. G. Clapp '09, this prologue will not so much provide a mere epitome of the theme of the play as attempt to picture the relations of the motives and characters of the drama proper...
...competition for the Pasteur Debating Medal must hand in their names to T. M. Gregory '10, Stoughton 14, before Thursday evening at 9 o'clock. On Friday evening at 7 o'clock all competitors will meet in the Assembly Room of the Union, where each man will be given five minutes to speak on any phase of the question, "Resolved, That the French government should adopt an income tax in order to distribute more equitably the burden of taxation." Six or seven men will be retained from this competition to speak in the final trial in the New Lecture Hall...
Such games as those which Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and Yale play against one another demonstrated that when careful attention is given by physicians and trainers the risk of death or serious injury is not great. It is in the games between these powerful teams and weaker ones, or in games in which the players are physically unfit or the proper medical attention is not given that serious accidents are most likely to happen. In drafting its rules the Committee has to consider not only the big institutions where football is played under the most favorable conditions and where every safeguard...
HARVARD AERONAUTICAL, SOCIETY. "The Principles of Mechanical Flight." (Illustrated.) Mr. A. A. Merrill. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, 7.30 P. M. The motion picture exhibit which has been advertised will not be given. Open to members of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...