Word: moves
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Yale's confidence in her prospects for success generally in athletics and sports would be amusing were it not, one has to fear, to a considerable extent well-founded. But then, Yale universally keeps so close a watch on her various athletic interests, and is so mindful of every move taken, that the varying recurrences of exultation and fear, that one continually observes in her college papers, seem very natural and proper. Self-confidence, when well based, is a very excellent thing. One thing is certain, that Yale can never be accused of false humility...
...adopt the Rugby rules, but the Americans, speaking from practical experience, disagreed with him. Mr. Moeran admitted that the American rule of not tackling a man below the waist was an excellent one, but he did not like to see the ball kicked backward. The Americans thought the latter move was a good part of the game. Mr. Manning spoke of a proposed rule that had found favor to oblige the half-backs who received the ball to stand at a certain distance so as to prevent block games. The British committee concurred in this. - [New York Times...
...greeting with a sideward duck of the head, are undoubtedly considered the accurate external indications of a mind and body which have probed life's complexity, a mind which has said : "Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas;" a body which has answered : "Very true, it is 'the thing' to live and move and have our being, however, we must put up with...
...teaching in a great number of more recondite subjects." (3) "Something should be done to enable the university to help original research." To a certain extent the scheme of an American school at Athens, in which Harvard has so much interest at present, may be said to be a move towards the solution of this problem. But it is doubtful whether improvement is so much needed in this direction as in what is comparatively the elementary portion of the college work at Harvard. But that all these reforms and advancements are merely visionary we do not believe; they lie directly...
There is a movement in Wisconsin to move the State capital to Milwaukee, and give the capitol buildings at Madison to the State University...