Word: narrows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...several narrow escapes form infuriated elephants and rhinos, once stopping a charging elephant only ten feet off. Buffaloes, also, were very dangerous. Lion hunting, though Colby said, is the finest sport of all, for the hunter is pitted against another trained hunter who knows much more about it than he does. Lions are crafty, and often seem cowardly, for they know that their charge is dangerous only within 40 yards. Once started, however, nothing but instant death can stop them...
...ascertain the connection between College and Law School marks, hardly bear out the "undergraduate hallucination which assumes an entire absence of any connection between examination grades and post-collegiate success." The man who takes the view that studies are all that are worth while at College is doubtless narrow-minded, but, on the other hand, the man who fails to recognize the direct relation of studies to general capacity and effectiveness in after life is no less short-sighted...
...successfully recovered its own punts, which the Yale backs should have had. Also in carrying the ball inside Syracuse's 25-yard line Yale did not show much power, on one occasion losing the ball on downs at the 4-yard line. Yale's goal line had a very narrow escape at the end of the second period, when the whistle blew with Syracuse in possession of the ball on first down at Yale's 5-yard line. Yale's twelve points were scored by two touchdowns by Philbin and Reilly. Both goals were kicked by Daly...
...provide that no student shall gradnate with a merely superficial education, or one that is too narrow in scope, is certainly an advance; but to stimulate a more general interest in scholarship is a far greater and far more difficult matter. It cannot be done merely by raising the standard for degree, for that is merely raising the minimum. A minimum requirement can never be really high nor act as an incentive to exertion for men of superior capacity; and it is not impossible that by constantly harping upon the minimum we have actually lessened the desire for excellence...
...Springfield Training School at Springfield Saturday in a poorly played game by a score of 4 to 0. Owing to the absence of Houston, Seamans, and Paul, Harvard was obliged to line up with one substitute and two Springfield men in the game. The field was very narrow and the frequency of outsides hindered consistent team-work. Cushing and Leland did the best work for Harvard...