Word: man
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...much confidence may reasonably be taken in the remark made by a man of wide football experience after Saturday's game, "That is the best Harvard team I ever saw"? There is no denying the fact that the exhibition of all around football displayed by the University team against Carlisle was noticeably better with the exception of kicking and handing punts than that of any Harvard team as far back as the present board can recall. The most conspicuous element and the most gratifying was the ample evidence of strategic football brains and it was quite as much a triumph...
...second score was made at the end of the half, after Cutler had received the ball in midfield. Corbett and White in a series of line plunges carried the ball to the 4-yard line, where Corbett was substituted by Leslie, and with the aid of a fresh man White was pushed through centre across the Indians' line. The final touchdown was made after rushing the whole length of the field. Harvard held Carlisle for downs on the 2-yard line, and with the aid of a forty-eight-yard end run by Cutting, and a forward pass of sixteen...
...figure, the retouching shows too much--nature does not willingly submit to being written up. His story, "Eb. Demming's Coon Hunt," is clever, and the dialect has greater verisimilitude than we commonly look for in such things. The defective who turns out to be more of a man than was expected figures also in "Jean and the Rabbit-Jules," and in Mr. Barber's "Club-foot Joe." He is as much one of the stock characters of the woods story as the rascally slave of Latin comedy; but three appearances in one week is overworking him, and the reader...
Little Old Man, left end, is 23 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, and weighs 161 pounds...
...opportunities are limited from now on. In this respect the President was alert as usual and seized the opportunity to talk freely about his resignation. The ever-present optimism was the keynote of his speech and we are all enlisted at his invitation in discovering the right man, a man in the very flush of the prime of life, to undertake the responsibilities which have been his for forty years. The successor will be found and it has seemed best that he be found...