Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taking advantage of the coldest September weather in Cambridge history yesterday. Coach Arnold Horween '20 sent the University football. squad through the hardest grind to date. This morning the teams will be sent through a long, strenuous scrimmage period with a cut in the squad expected to follow...
...potentiality of his coaching will be felt from the most insignificant freshman candidate to the star of the Crimson team, a training extending over a period of four years. What was felt to be the greatest asset to the great Notre Dame teams of several years ago, namely the long time period of training under Knute Rockne, will be in a sense realized at Harvard in this and in future years...
Advise, commands, warnings, admonitions, descend regularly every fall on the Freshman class and they will undoubtedly do so as long as people continue to go to college. Between meetings at the Union, and the Phillips Brooks House, conferences with faculty and student advisors, meals and discussions with other bewildered classmates, respectful conversations with upper classmen, the Freshman soon finds out enough to avoid singing up for five pressing contracts, and fills out a study card...
...agreed with me that while a good military school or staff college cannot guarantee the quantity production of Napoleons and Lees, it can and does produce competent officers of high professional spirit. I went on to say that even what he called "mere technical knowledge" goes a long way in forming successful character. It is basic for judgment; it enhances courage by dispelling baseless fears. If you will define and analyze "gumption," you will find that knowledge and training play their part in it. Indeed, the honest search for knowledge is a cardinal virtue and a builder of character...
...suspended service to send every plane on the search. Col. Lind- bergh, the line's technical advisor, and his wife flew from Long Island to hunt. The aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga sent ten planes from San Diego harbor; the Army sent squadrons from Texas, California, Nebraska. Western Air Express pilots, keeping up their service, had orders to deviate from their fixed routes to scan remote terrain...