Word: man
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hand up to or within one foot of it. He must also stand with both feet outside the outside player next to him; but the two men standing on either side of the snapper-back may lock legs with the snapper-back. "Outside" means with both feet outside the man next...
...Intercollegiate wrestling meet held in the Columbia gymnasium Friday evening, Princeton secured fourth place, winning four bouts. D. G. Herring '07 was the only man to win his bout in the finals, securing falls in both the finals and preliminaries in less than two minutes...
...power of thus winning and holding men lay, I have always felt, in his bluff, great-hearted manliness, his humor, and his sympathy. He loved men and was in turn beloved. Like other men remarkably fertile in plans and suggestions, he found his judgments and conclusions often questioned--no man has been oftener disagreed with; but however much one might differ with him in opinion, one found that the bond of affection grew steadily stronger. No subject that involved the sons of men or their concerns was foreign to his interest; if there was one he had not thought about...
...man of great heart; a scientific humanitarian, and shall...
During the last forty years Professor Shaler has lectured on geology to about 7000 students at Harvard, a greater number, I believe, than have attended the lectures of any other man on that subject; but this does not mean so much that the legion of young men were deeply interested in the science of the earth as that they were attracted by the man who told them about it. His extraordinary individuality was felt there as it was everywhere else. Most professors are known chiefly through the subject that they study and teach: strip them of that and, like kings...