Word: momentous
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...kept up a strong attack on the Columbia defense. For the first pat of the period, both teams were even, but finally Harvard took the lead. In the second half Harvard depended more on defensive work and was greatly superior to Columbia in massing her team at the right moment. Columbia weakened much in this half and here passing and goal shooting became very ragged...
Although in the first two periods the game was very even, twice the Seniors almost scored. In the extra period the Seniors showed more endurance than their opponents, and scored in the second minute of play, Canterbury making a goal on a skillful pass from Hoxie. A moment later Canterbury scored again unaided, after a brilliant run down the ice. With a lead of two goals, the Seniors played a perfect defensive game by dropping one forward back, and gave the Freshmen no chance to score...
...conquerors." And yet in the history of the world's great battles he learns that there is, after all, something beyond conquest. A great military here is messured not merely by the completeness of his victory, but by the mercy and magnamity with which he uses it. The sublimest moment in Grant's career was not his victory over Lee, but the great-hearted sympathy for his fee which he showed afterward; there was conquest in the fearful wreck and destruction of the Spanish fleet off Santiago, but there was more than conquest in the act of the captain...
...Volkslied" represent however a marvelous development, which show what might have been reached under more favorable conditions. The "language sodalities," for ameliorating the language itself, are a further example of movements which were too exclusive and too theoretical. The attempted reform in the German vocabulary, which for the moment failed, was contrasted with the gains to English in the hands of a controversial master of style like Thomas Nash. Nash wrote with the nation for his audience and his changes (e.g. the introduction of words in the size into controversial English) were dictated by more practical considerations than occurred...
...down Bloomer made five yards. Stillman was substituted for Ellis. Hale punted to the middle of the field, and as Harvard failed to gain, Sawin returned the punt to Yale's thirtyyard line Graydon then replaced Eaton. Stillman of Yale plunged through the line for eight yards, but a moment later Harvard got the ball on a fumble. A double pass play was then tried, but Coy broke through, got the ball and with a clear field run forty yards for a touchdown. Hale kicked the goal...