Word: momentous
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Chairman of the Trophy Room Committee, reply to the charges of neglect and mismanagement made by a correspondent in your issue of last Saturday? If your correspondent will look at the Trophy Room, he will see the reason why at the present moment banners, footballs, the Ardsley Cup, and other trophies are stored in the Gymnasium cellar. There is no room for them in the Trophy Room. What banners hang there are too closely spaced, and of the two cases there, one is already over-crowded with baseballs, and the other, devoted to football, baseball, and track cups...
...true that we have at the present moment the balance of a sum voted us last year by the Athletic Committee, which could be spent in providing a case. But it has seemed best to hold this fund in reserve. The banners now hanging in the Trophy Room are fast falling to pieces. No banner will last more than a few years unless some means of preserving it by a varnish or coating of some sort can be devised. For the last two years we have been in negotiation with an expert at the Art Museum, and some...
...most friends among the spectators that secured the victory. This was perhaps a relic of the ancient by-gone days when in no less of an affair than a championship intercollegiate contest the sympathizers of one of the contending teams swarmed on the field at the psychological moment and wrenched the goal posts form the ground to prevent their opponents from scoring a goal in the old-fashioned game...
...much smaller number of ushers than was assigned, owing to the failure of a considerable number of men to appear. In each case it had been necessary to omit from the final list of ushers the names of many men who had signed the blue-book at the last moment. It seems unfair that these men who desire to usher should be kept from doing so by the men who fail to show up at the proper time on days of games. Another important point is that this loss of ushers assigned to definite sections causes considerable delay in people...
...followers, who at the end, defeat him and his cause. Lack of funds compels him to abandon his pro- jected colony in Palestine and turn to the more accessible land of Africa. His followers, however, refuse to accept any substitution for the Promised Land, and at the very moment of his supposed triumph, turn against him. The tragedy of his defeat is enhanced by his enforced separation from the woman he loves, who is a Christian and, for that reason, hated by his followers...