Word: half
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...soccer team blanked the Milton eleven in a fast game played at Milton yesterday afternoon with a 3-0 score. A vigorous and sustained attack in the first half allowed the yearlings to make their score before the school boys could organize their defense. In the second half the Orange and Blue booters were considerably stronger, and the yearlings were hard pressed to defend their goal...
...Half of our teachers have no training whatever for their work, and half of them have no education beyond the high school. Half of them again do not stay more than five years in the work, and half of them are not over 25 years of age. Yet without question the teacher is the most important factor in education. Nothing else can count so much. No money the country can spend and no perfection of school organization or administration can compensate for the lack of trained teachers...
...true that injuries are more liable to occur in big games, nevertheless the moral preparation for the Yale game, both for the team and the undergraduates, far outweighs the physical objection. Not until this year's team had been given a taste of real football for one-half of the Princeton game did they find themselves. From then on nothing could stop them. Not until the undergraduates saw their team fighting to the last ditch at Princeton did they know what backing was. After that none could be more loyal...
...clock in Harvard 6. The question to be discussed is as follows: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt the Plumb Plan for the operation of the railroads." Each speaker will be given five minutes in which to defend which ever side of the question he chooses. Half of the men who speak tonight will be retained for the second trial next Friday at the same time and place...
During its three and a half years of service the Hospital took care of over 150,000 casualties. This is greater than the total reported wounded of the American Expeditionary Forces. At one time during the German offensive of March, 1918. Colonel Cabot and his associates took in over 1200 patients in 24 hours, and had 3000 in the Hospital at that time...