Word: lessons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...detestable smugness of the Pastor's household is realistically described, and the only wonder is that Kendall did not find his way to the white--or should we say the red--lights sooner. The story might have ended after Kendall reads the delayed home letters. It is an admirable lesson to foolish fathers...
...meeting then adjourned to the chapel, where Bishop Hughes conducted a special service in honor of the occasion. The lesson driven home was that the ultimate success of John Harvard's undertaking rests with the members of the institution which he founded. The service was distinguished by the singing of an old Harvard hymn...
...playing as a successfully rejuvenated team should; the substitutes, who had been considered unduly weak since the touchdown scored upon them by Cornell, seemed to play almost as well as the regulars. The regular line still lacked the punch which it was hoped they would exhibit after the lesson taught by Princeton, and which will be imperatively necessary if a victory is to be scored against Yale today...
After one experience with a world-beating Harvard team that was almost universally expected to swamp a supposedly weak Yale team in 1910, I want to offer just a word to the undergraduates, with the exception of the Seniors: to them, I am sure, 1910 taught a valuable lesson...
...cynical air; but we do, nevertheless undertake to make a few remarks of warning on the football situation. The prospects of this team are peculiarly similar to those of the team of 1910 that, after a whirlwind season, allowed Yale her famous "moral victory." We learned then a bitter lesson, that a game is never ours until it is won. We have, however, absolute confidence in Coach Haughton and Captain Storer to keep their men from any over-confidence. It is the men in the stands who should remember that Yale is fighting the fight of a drowning...