Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...among a series of less important changes, the intercollegiate convention limited the number of players to eleven. Here football came by the number which so evenly balances offense and defense, and which has grown to be a magical word in the nomenclature of the sport...
...30th of October a more or less informal game was played with a very fast aggregation of Chinese students in which the latter...
...representative of the best that America can produce, are two assumptions which I doubt if you are entitled to make, however little I may be in a position gracefully to repute them. If you are under the impression that recent writings in the Atlantic Monthly give you authority, a less cursory reading of those articles will answer...
...coaches expect every man to give tomorrow evening to the team; they want to prove that we are not less solidly behind our winning team than Yale is behind her twice defeated eleven. "The spirit in which your team enters the Stadium Saturday will be greatly determined by the reception they received; by the send-off you give them tomorrow," was the message they gave out last night...
...ever come out of it.' He believed, and indeed the world would not be worth living in if one did not believe that there are as good men in the world as those who are gone and that those who are yet to be born will be not less good. But nevertheless we shall never see Henry Lee Higginson again...