Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are no inherent obstacles, if we are neither by nature solitary-minded nor by education completely convinced of the ultimate verities, then there is hope. There is no sacrifice of traditional method needed. We need not try our land at cleverness. But there is something to be said for experiment, even if trial be followed by error, and there is always the chance. Philosophy has now become as popular as word-puzzles, and philosophy used to be considered academic...
...trying in the first place to give each team a separate style of offense. All the players gain more experience by this method than as if the attacks of all the teams were similar Secondly, we are trying to coach them as teams, with an idea of developing team-play and co-operation. We try too to give each man a maximum of actual play, and of coaching in the particular department of the game in which he is interested...
...mediaeval warrior suddenly appear in a modern barbershop, and see a fat man reclining in a chair, with a barber scraping his face, a bootblack energetically rubbing his shoes, and a fair maid clipping his nails, he would doubtless believe that this was some new, elaborate, and efficient method of torture; perhaps he would be right...
...Four hundred pounds," chorused the prisoners. Delinquents they were, brought before Judge Otto Rosalsky in Manhattan. The judge was testing them for feeblemindedness after a method...
...work of the forward line was even less satisfactory than that of the backs. The linemen were admittedly pitted against an unusually powerful set of forwards and were faced in their first game with the problem of solving a shifting method of attack which changed constantly. Turner's loss was felt heavily in the center of the line as was Crosby's in the back field. Coach Horween made numerous substitutions in the line, Symonds, Steward, Goodwin, and Meadows, all new men seeing considerable service. Of these reserves, Meadows, the Sophomore end, showed the most promise...