Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, there were certain defects, as was to be expected early in the season. The men seemed nervous in the beginning, and Bach's chorus, which demanded a powerful tone, was overdone. The violin obligate added little to Schumann's "Gypsy Life." Then, the program seemed rather long. Two hours and a half is quite a while to sit through any concert of this kind, especially when the program lacks some of the swinging numbers such as were sung last year. At the previous concert in Symphony Hall it was evident that the public came largely to hear Mr. Kreisler...
...picked team from Great Britain's two most ancient and best-known universities, selected to compete against Cornell's best. Cross-country and distance running, moreover, is par excellence the Englishman's specialty. We excel in the dashes, hurdles and field events--contests in which a high degree of nervous energy is required for a short period of time. The Britisher, on the other hand, has usually excelled in events which require stamina, endurance and long training. Of such events cross-country running is a typical example. The Oxford and Cambridge harriers had a further advantage in being familiar with...
Under this rule, based on the above reasoning, the goal from touchdown has proved rather unsatisfactory. Games have been lost through a miscue by a nervous kicker or holder of the ball, and the rest of the team has had to see their efforts at team work successful at reaching the correct goal in view--the touchdown--nullified by one individual's failure to kick a tying or winning goal. That the kicking of the goal is quite inconsistent with the team play that is the essence of football, is in no way better shown than by the action...
Four of the 25 are coming to the University. Fritz Bremer, graduate of the Medical School of Brussels University, who is to specialize on nervous diseases; George Feys, graduate of Louvain, who is to study dentistry; Maurice Pieters, a student of pedagogy; and Edouard Saerens, a chemist...
William MacDougall, the Oxford psychologist, whose "Body and Mind" and "The Group Mind" are well known wherever men study his subject, and who did unusual work among nervous cases during the war, has arrived at Harvard, and on Monday will take up his duties as Professor of Psychology. Until recently Professor MacDougall was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College at Oxford...