Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...decidedly in favor of this plan of both teams keeping their coaches from the players' bench, for after the game is over the players will all know that the result of the game was due to their efforts and not to help received during the game from the more experienced professional coach. Not only does this plan put an added responsibility on both the captains and the players, but it will mean that more stress will be put on co-operation and team play. With this in view through the early season, the players will learn to depend on themselves...
...reached. But that does not mean that his audience tonight will not be as large as usual, and as appreciative. It means simply that some are going to miss a delightful evening. Barrie and Henley are not as familiar to us as Kipling and O. Henry, but we know the reader well enough to trust to his judgment in choosing...
...spirit of the fighting diners of Memorial. Napoleon's men pelted "The Last Supper" with brickbats; their successors have used potatoes and biscuits, usually softer but no less dangerous missiles, to pelt the pictures that line the walls of Memorial Hall. Napoleon's men probably did not know that in "The Last Supper" Leonardo da Vinci had done a world masterpiece; our fighting contemporaries probably do not appreciate the fact that Memorial contains pictures of great value from the hands of our best portrait painters. But, whereas Napoleon never asked his dragoons to preserve "The Last Supper," members of Memorial...
President Lowell recounted the unfortunate circumstance of dissention in his graduating class,--dissention caused, not because of personal animosity but because the men did not really know one another well enough to sympathize with each other's customs, habits, and opinions. The note here may be one of individuality and the individual may go his own way, but it is a broad way and one full of the fellowship of others. In the world today, a man's achievement depends upon his power in swaying the minds of men, and this power is impossible without understanding and sympathy...
...praise. He says that we cannot get away from the fact that college men are apt to be extravagant, careless, and lacking in application. Fortunately these generally prove to be superficial traits, soon overcome; but they indicate the course which college men should pursue in their reforms. We know from experience that carelessness, at least, is a college failing...