Word: making
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...there are only two more weeks of class football, every 1910 man who is able should come out regularly for the class team in order to make it a success. A meeting will be held to elect the class captain directly after practice today. R. C. BROWN...
...Monday's Herald, among other remarks on the football situation, appeared the following: "Alley, a 215-pound guard who reported with the Harvard squad early in the season, has either quit of his own accord or else has been given the quiet tip to make himself scarce. He played with an Oklahoma college team two years ago, and was rated as a find. The coaches refuse to discuss the case, and several undergraduates are of the opinion that Alley was not given a fair show...
...possibility that I "was not given a fair show." On the other hand, during all the time I participated in the work on Soldiers Field, I was treated with uniform courtesy and consideration by the coaches, the trainer and the management. I was given every opportunity to make good. After my participation in the Bowdoin game I was assigned to the University locker room and the training table--a distinction which I will remember with pleasure...
...knows the make-up of the Committee can be convinced that there was any bad judgment shown in the choice of songs. The technical qualities of the compositions submitted were passed upon by the head of the musical department and by men prominently connected with undergraduate musical affairs. The rhythm and swing, equally necessary in a football song, were judged by prominent members of 1907 and 1908, who spared no pains to select the most suitable song...
...inferior to those selected. The competition is nominally closed, but it is not yet too late to put into use words that are dignified--not blatant and boastful--to be sung to some tune that we all know; nor is it too late for men of musical ability to make an effort to turn out a song that will take its place among those of which we are justly proud...