Word: pair
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Taken all in all, at its present stage of development the Princeton team is too one-sided to be good. There is no doubt that it has the speediest backfield combination in the East and a pair of first class ends; but it has absolutely no good line plunger, and with the line unable to protect their attack, the backfield cannot be effective...
...University tennis team was no match for the Princeton team when the two met at Princeton on Saturday, the home players winning all six of the matches in singles. The one match played in doubles was won by the Harvard pair...
...school days, when any childish amusement was preferable to paying attention to the teacher. Apparently there are still many "college men" who are strongly addicted to the puerile habit of stamping. As a means of expressing approval or disapproval of what a lecturer says, the use of a pair of large and hardy feet (organs indispensable in many emergencies) is absurd. Men of impulsive natures with frequent and acute temptations to stamp in lectures, should practice self-restraint. If they must give vent to their feelings let them lock themselves in their rooms after the lecture is over, and calling...
...pounds. There are no signals for him to buy, no blackboard talks from coaches, pope of the hundred and one phases of training that make American football a business father than a sport. He simply joins a team of men of his own skill, puts on a pair of ruining shorts and a jersey, trois over to the field and commences to play. In an hour or less he is taking his bath and soccer has no more claim on him till the following...
...memory. The other stories are cruder in execution, though less sincere in purpose, be their background the gold fields of the Yukon as depicted by Mr. Hoffman; the civilized though somewhat vague habitations of an Irene, serially being educated by Mr. Moderwell; or the dusky hillside of a pair of married lovers left in a state of suspended emotions by Mr. Hunter...