Word: lay
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Before the Harvard-Princeton game--and after it--Harvard considered Princeton very strong, yet against Yale Princeton did not appear formidable. The reason for this lay in the great latent power of the Yale team, especially its line, which has found itself at last...
...there is no reason for feeling discouraged; the backs and ends played brilliantly, individually and collectively; the recurrent lack of power in the line, where ever it lay, was very possibly the consequence of not having previously met really worthy opponents. In any case there is no reason to doubt that this tendency to weakness can and will be remedied before the Yale game...
With the exception of Mahan and Trumbull, the entire University squad yesterday proved to be in good condition, in spite of the stiffness of Saturday's contest. O'Brien and Hitchcock got back in the game after a lay-off of several days. Mahan is still in the Infirmary after the lancing of his infected foot, but is reported to be doing well. It is expected that he will be released from Stillman either today or tomorrow, but when he will get back in the game is a different question. Trumbull's bruise seems a little more serious than...
...agitation seems to come nearer the root of the matter than has any before it. The concensus of opinion, if there was any concensus at all, of the letters which followed Mr. Bok's attack on colleges in the Outlook last summer was that the blame for poor English lay, not with the colleges directly, but with the preparatory and even grammar schools. It is true that it was generally believed that colleges were tending to encourage other studies at the expense of English, but, as far as the principles of English technique were concerned, all the writers seemed...
Professor Rand's interest lay in the field of paleography, a subject for which there is abundant chance for research in the library of the Vatican. There have always been the most intimate relations between the Vatican and the school, and Father Ehile, the prefect of the library, is most courteous and helpful to the students in allowing them to use the valuable manuscripts of which he has charge...