Word: momentous
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...aligned upon the last mile of boat races, demonstrations strictly forbidden by the course-regulations, and which render any communications in the boats themselves impossible; or the noisy attempts of crowds to disconcert a player who is essaying a place kick, or to rattle a pitcher at a critical moment, or of players themselves, who imitate the tactics of cheap professional teams with hysterical cacklings on and off the diamond,--these are sad signs of a decadent sportsmanship. To be sure, the true athlete will keep his eye on the ball rather than on the bleachers, and his thoughts...
...effect upon the University of organized cheering is of even greater moment than its effect upon the team. From the familiar natural law of atrophy, we know that enthusiasm unexpressed, soon ceases to exist. On the other hand, rational and intelligent expression of deep feelings of enthusiasm stimulates our loyalty to class and to college. It fosters that intangible something, known as college spirit,--an element of student life which is absolutely essential to the well being of the University
...crew. They have been together longer than any of the other crews, and have gone through their season without a change. The Juniors have been especially unfortunate in losing men on account of sickness. The positions of stroke and 3 have had to be refilled at practically the last moment, thus retarding the development of what might have been a very last crew. The Sophomores, also, have lost men from time to time. Their body work, however, is good and at times the crew has shown considerable speed. The Law School crew was not organized until after the other crews...
...lecturer gave a detailed account of the manner of preparing the condemned for the scaffold, from the moment when they had heard their death sentence in the hall where sat the Revolutionary Tribunal up to the time when the victims were made to ascend the cart waiting at the gate of the Conciergerie. The itinerary followed by these carts on their way to the scaffold can readily be traced along the existing streets of the French metropolis...
This spirit has also manifested itself by a constant disregard of the fundamental legal rights of freedom of contracts and of personal security. Any supposed good accomplished by trade unionism cannot for a moment outweigh the evils resulting from the subversion of these basal rights...