Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much stronger team than Tilton, Choate or Milton, the three victims of the Freshmen to date. Hebron will come to Cambridge with practically the same line-up as that which defeated the 1927 five in two overtime periods last year and should extend the Freshman quintet to the limit. HARVARD M. I. T. Smith r.f. l.g. Eager Leekley l.f. r.g. Ingram Rauh c. c. Wilcox Samborski r.g. l.f. Forrester Morrison l.g. r.f. Hinck
...more befitting the Middle Ages than the twentieth century. In intellectual outlook there seems to have been little progress. "Difference from me" is still the measure of absurdity. The Sanhedrin and the Spanish Inquisition proceeded according to the same theory as the modern dogmatists who think they can limit truth by official mandate...
...cruel joke that the State, which decrees compulsory education within a certain age limit, should also decree that the student, forbidden to work, is barred out of school more than a quarter of his share of fleeting time...
Human potentiality is a variable which constantly approaches a limit it can never reach. Nothing is so likely as the impossible, for which reason people do well to give more credence to their prophets than to their logicians. What can be done and what cannot be done seems, after the expeditions of many years, to be fairly determined; but no sooner is it so than someone is born who borrows a caravel from his Queen and pays her back with a continent, throws an army over the Alps, or outstrips Time with the fleetness of his heels...
...games must be played by timeclock. The time limit will be thirty-six moves for the first two hours and eighteen moves for each additional hour, and any man exceeding this limit automatically defaults the match to his opponent...