Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...opponents. To begin at the Harvard left end, Captain Emmons is an exception to the rule. He is certainly superior to the light and inexperienced Louis Hinkey, and to Greenway, considering the latter's present state of health. Louis Hinkey is not so heavy, so aggressive, and does not know the game so well...
Permit me to call attention to the importance of continuous and effective cheering in the game next Saturday. We all know that Yale has won many a game, because the cheering on her side was properly led. In the section where I sat at Springfield last year, there was no one to lead until a young man jumped up of his own accord...
...these days when even those whose interest in the success of the eleven is most intense can not for obvious reasons know anything of the real chances of success or failure, it is of vital importance that every man strive to keep his spirits up and to show in every way possible his loyalty. Many circumstances have conspired this season to weaken the confidence of the College in the team's ability to win. The daily papers have contained startling accounts of Yale's strength, while by reason of the strict secrecy to which all the Harvard players have been...
...give a course in military science here is that he also conduct drill. Obviously then if he can not make a success of the drill, the other course must be given up. It is hard to assign the exact reason for the lack of interest. There is, we know, a feeling with many men that the military company is a schoolboy institution and is more a thing to poke fun at than anything else. But it is not a "sign of freshness" for a man to join the Rifles. The training is most valuable and on the whole...
What must be the result on politics? A class of men is created who know that they must tend to politics, or lose their job. Such men become the mercenaries of corrupt political leaders. Against them are arrayed decent men, but these decent men cannot have any such organization as do the mercenaries. Organized corruption has good chances of winning against unorganized decency. The only way to break up this organization of corruption is by taking away from the political leaders the offices by which they pay themselves...