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...more desirous but also the more difficult to enforce. Their success depends on two things: the willingness of all coaches to teach their players to play the game, not to circumvent the rules whenever possible, and the agreement of all officials to call every infraction of the rules and inflict the penalty at all times. It is a well known fact that a great majority of the coaches teach their mon "inside tricks" and that in a good many cases if players are reasonably certain that a foul will not be discovered, they will commit it. If the present drastic...
From a legal standpoint the telegram, if genuine, was interesting. But to read it to a National Assembly was an old man's folly. By excusing the Thirteenth Alfonso as "timid," loyal old Count de Romanones sealed such doom as Spain's National Assembly could inflict...
...Braxton Bragg, whom Forrest soon distrusted, finally despised. One day he stamped into Bragg's tent, spoke thus: "You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them. And I will hold you personally responsible for any further indignities you try to inflict on me. You have threatened to arrest me for not obeying your orders promptly. I dare you to do it, and I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path, it will be at the peril of your life." Bragg...
...jurist and historian all acclaim Holmes in words of glowing praise. Hughes, in presenting an intimate picture of Holmes in his work on the Supreme Court says: "In the performance of his official duties, he is not simply conscientious, but astounding in his method, by which he seems to inflict upon himself cruel and unusual punishment." Sankey's words on behalf of the English Judiciary are a case in point when he proclaims: "No American judge of modern times is more widely known or more deeply venerated...
...that process by which the contents of the professor's notebook are transferred by means of the fountain pen to the student's notebook without passing through the mind of either," and recently Mr. H.G. Wells declared. "There is no need whatever for any one ever to suffer or inflict an ordinary course of lectures again...