Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...despatch has been received from London announcing a violent uprising against the Jews of Keshinoff, Russia. Hundreds of men, women, and children were massacred and property, including synagogues, was destroyed. Twenty-five thousand Jews are homeless and helpless...
...third rate eleven. Dropping punts, bad fumbling and slow interference are all characteristic of the team at times. These defects were the cause of their defeat by Brown, and were prominent in the game with Annapolis. In these games the men took a decided slump, the line was almost helpless on both offense and defense, and the plays lacked dash and vim. This was due in part to the injuries of the men, as a short rest brought about a noticeable change in the team. In the game with Columbia last Saturday, Pennsylvania played a fast and aggressive game...
...score of 35 to 5. Wesleyan had the weakest team that has played on Soldiers Field this season, but nevertheless by means of well-executed trick plays managed to make a number of long runs and eventually a touchdown. But on the defense the Wesleyan eleven was entirely helpless and, during the first half, owing partly to Harvard's improved attack, was unable to offer any effective resistance to the plays which resulted in the University team's five touchdowns and goal from the field. The most discouraging part of the game was the way the substitutes, who were...
...more frequently the tendency was not to follow the interference closely enough during the first part of the play; the slow forming of the interference may have invited the backs to branch out in this way for themselves, but even granting this they should not have been so absolutely helpless when left alone. One of the most discouraging features of the play was the remarkable inability of the ends and rush-line halfbacks to stop simple end runs. That this was the first game of the season is not a sufficient excuse for such miserable playing as that which allowed...
...interest an audience of College men. And if such lectures are ever announced in the CRIMSON, let us have them prefaced by "*" (open to the University), not by a "*" (open to the Public). Let us have no picnic suppers in the Fogg Art Lecture Room, so that the helpless undergraduate, arriving at 7.45, may be able to find a seat...