Word: owning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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The Brown game was the closest that has been seen in the Stadium this year. The University team, with only five minutes to play and with the score 5 to 0 against them, put a snap into their actions that was irresistible, and rushed the ball straight down the field...
The comfort of the spectators at the game tomorrow is partly intrusted to a large number of ushers, chosen in a majority of cases without any knowledge of their ability and with the understanding that their chief motive for volunteering was to see the game. They should feel, however, that...
On occasions such as distributions of Yale game seats or appointments to various coveted positions, those in charge are besieged by a host of petitioners, each with his own little claim for preferment. In some cases these requests are deserving, but the great majority have the weakest grounds for appeal...
These grafters--for no other name suits them as well--would bitterly resent being classed with the multitude of political parasites who besiege a successful candidate for office. They insist that they are merely claiming their rights, and cannot understand the attitude of men with equally strong claims who are...
Mr. Townsend's "Fishing" and Mr. Bowles' "A Course in Journalism" are perfectly commonplace stories, unenlivened by anything in the style of their telling. Better far is Mr. Whitman's "Morning with the Army." Though if one remembers aright, it is not so good as some of his other "small...