Word: led
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wish to say that never in all that time did I meet an utterance that gave me the least impression of Germany's desiring to provoke a war. The country was simply teeming with great plans for the future which would inevitably have been frustrated by war. I am led to send you this declaration by the sudden discovery that some of our noted men still believe that Germany, driven by a militarist party and through lust for conquest deliberately precipitated this struggle. I declare such a view to be absolutely and fundamentally false. ERNEST T. HENDERSON '84, Ph.D., L.H.D...
This was Yale's last game before the Princeton contest this week and that with the University seven a week from tomorrow. Yale led at the end of the first half, 2 to 1, but despite York's remarkable work at goal, the St. Nicholas seven scored three points in the second period, while Yale scored but once. Herron, Bierwirth and Captain Sweeney tallied for Yale...
...second place. Of the universities which come next, California now impressive with 8,180 students, and Chicago with its 7,131, were almost unknown in the palmy days of the "Big Four." But this change in order does not argue decadence by any means, in those universities which formerly led. They have had uninterrupted prosperity, as a rule, and an increase of their own. Numbers may indicate prosperity, but there is a prosperity more substantial than they indicate. There is such a thing as an increase of quality as well as of quantity, and those universities which face a limitation...
...extra time allowed for the contests has led to the introduction of several new events. The management has always desired to make the relay races a nucleus for Olympic teams, and it will be on these lines that they will develop. On Friday a Pentathlon for college men will be held. The regular events of the Olympic Pentathlon will be contested, namely, the running broad jump, throwing the javelin, throwing the discus, 200-meter race and 1500-meter race. This will be practically an all-round championship for the college men and it should be one of the most interesting...
...year, the first being "The Only Girl in Sight," by Miss Caroline Budd. The third bill, scheduled for some time late in February, will be composed of one-act pieces. The novel work of adequately staging original plays in the Workshop is continually advancing. The last two performances have led to a more thorough organization of the scenery and property departments. T. C. Browne '15 is in charge of the scenery and lighting of this performance, and E. A. Whitney '17, assisted by E. P. Goodnow '17, is in charge of the properties. The need for a building is becoming...