Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sets of the publications of the Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press and Yale University Press will be found on exhibition and sale, the collections being kept up to date by the addition of new books by each Press on the day of publication. It is scarcely necessary to point out the advantage to scholars and other book lovers of being able henceforth, in attractive surroundings, to inspect at their leisure all the volumes issued by three of our greatest American universities...
...appearance of Brown, though disastrous, proved to be the turning point in Yale's fortunes. Shevlin had arrived from the West just three days before, practically displacing his colleague, Mr. Hinkey, and with his coming there started something new in 1915 football at New Haven. The Brown game was played and lost before his work showed its effect, but the following Saturday, at 2 o'clock on November 13th, Shevlin sent out on the Bowl field that for which the Blue followers had been looking all fall--a Yale team, ragged and crude, but undeniably a team...
...perhaps most fundamentally requisite, came forward with the ability to follow the ball. In the way of an offense, the Elis indeed had little, simply a few variations of the old Minnesota shift, but Princeton overconfidence and Guernsey's drop-kicking made an offence practically unnecessary. The main point is, that what Yale did show in the game was good. The Yale line, given a simpler method of interference, showed the ability to be of great aid to its backfield, while the backs impressively demonstrated that they had been carefully drilled in breaking up the forward pass and that with...
...ending with this single sentence of general criticism of the affair. "There was a large crowd and much enthusiasm." In spite of the lack of general interest which it aroused, this game on May 15, 1874, marked the beginning of a football regime which has reached its highest point before 49,000 spectators today...
...season, then, shows a record of one defeat and seven victories. This year, certainly a not more than average one in point of material, should thus far have taught the schedule framers an important lesson; that with the rising excellence of "small college" football and with the reappearance of merely average material for Crimson teams, it will in future be advisable to confine all the preliminary and the first of the mid-season dates to contests which will build up the team and not retard it. Special preparations for "minor" games, made necessary by the fact that the "minor" teams...