Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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About 40 minutes of preliminary work was done, particular attention being given to punting and the receiving of kicks. In punting, Meier showed up well. After short signal practice the first eleven took a short run and then went off the field...
...line and tackled low. Cutts had no difficulty in opening holes when called upon, and carried the ball with strength and intelligence. He was quicker in starting and kept his feet longer than usually. He interfered in good style. Bowditch played a brilliant game in all but one particular. He was slow in getting down the field on kicks, but though he did not tackle the player who caught the ball, succeeded in turning him in. Bowditch was very valuable in helping the runner along, and succeeded in adding materially to the ground gained. Campbell was also slow in getting...
...sudden acquisition of almost perfect freedom in every particular offers great opportunities, although there may be involved the risk of sin. It is said that virtue is possible only when the risk of vice or sin goes with it, but it must be remembered that experience of sin is an entirely different matter from the risk...
...athletic contests. The growing familiarity of each with the other has therefore revealed wide differences not only in the technical features of various events, but in the prevailing spirit of sportsmanship as well. "Granted, the common love of out-of-door sports, the two countries differ in almost every particular. . . . Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, merely to speak the names in a single breath raises an atmosphere of jealous and aggressive rivalry. . . . Oxford, Cambridge -- there is an immediate suggestion of fifteenth century architecture, overgrown with ivy." In a word, English athletics have none of that bitterness too often seen here...
...Freshmen in particular, who have any ability in playing chess are urged to enter the tournament, and special opportunities will be offered to anyone who shows promise of becoming a good player. The four men getting the highest average in the fall tournament will represent the University in the intercollegiate tournament; and the first ten men will be representatives in the matches with Yale, University of California, and the less important matches. The last man of these ten may at any time be challenged by another member of the club, and, if beaten, must resign his place to his opponent...