Word: manner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...return to the Law or Graduate Schools. They are Boal and his substitute, A. R. Sargent, Captain Burden, and Parker and Warren, substitute halfbacks. This means the loss of all the valuable guards of this season's team, and leaves none who have played in a steady or dependable manner this year. Hollingsworth, Barnard and Lee are all of about the same degree of mediocrity. Of the Freshman eleven, the only guard of promise is Graydon, who is a hard rusher and line-bucker...
...November number of the Contemporary Review contains the lecture on "Teaching of English Law at Harvard," which Professor A. V. Dicey delivered last spring upon his return to England. In a most eulogistic manner he analyses the methods used at the Law School, and after showing that the students have been taught to live in a legal atmosphere by means of their clubs and magazine, draws some lessons from the workings which Oxford would do well to follow...
Taking as his text James Russell Lowell's words, "My Life Shall be a Challenge not a Truce," he pointed out in a striking and forcible manner the vast good, men and especially college men can do by the example of steadfast and honorable living. He said it was principally for this purpose that the St. Andrews Brotherhood had been formed, and to this it has owed its great success in a large measure...
...adopted, providing that in case the society should ever be dissolved, its "inalienable" capital, now amounting to over $25,000, should be turned over, to the Corporation as a fund, the income to be used "for the embellishment of the College precints, or otherwise at their discretion in such manner as to contribute to the amenity of student life...
...still fail to charge their opponents and lack dash and aggressiveness. They are indifferent to the gains of opponents and are lamentably weak in following the ball. Low and hard tackling is the exception rather than the rule. The offense has only recently been taken up in a systematic manner and it is consequently still ineffective. The backs run slowly and interfere high and the linemen fail to open holes cleanly and at the proper time. The plays are slow and loose and lack the force which would exist if every man's energy were exerted at the right moment...