Word: pretended
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...next onset. If in the last encounter a player has been obviously lamed in leg or arm or shoulder, the brunt of an early attack should fall on him. As a corollary to this principle, it is justifiable for a player, who is in good order, to pretend that he is seriously hurt, in order that, he may draw the opponent's attack to the wrong place. These rules of action are all justifiable, and even necessary, in the consummate savagery called war, in which the immediate object is to kill and disable as many of the enemy as possible...
...courses on chemistry, botany and biology, however useful, would carry a student of medicine. The tissue and substance of the professional training of the forester, just as in the case of the doctor, are quite distinct and peculiar. I do not believe that we have anybody here who could pretend to give this training, and even if we should secure some one to do the teaching, we should still lack proper equipment. It is misleading to speak as if the College, apart from the professional schools, could give the would-be forester more than it gives anyone else, a good...
...going in for forestry. These are more than provided for by the schools at Biltmore, Cornell and New Haven, and for various reasons we should find it hard to rival what Yale, helped by the Pinchot family, is doing already. I cannot see, therefore, how Harvard can profitably pretend to do more than she is really doing now--let anyone study anything which he thinks will help him when he gets to a professional school. HENRY JAMES...
...examination of the arguments of those who favor the Warren House property as a site for the Harvard Union discloses the significant fact that they are distinctly apologetic. The advocates of this site do not pretend that the far side of Quincy street is, in any sense, a College centre; they content themselves with asserting that it can be made a centre, or with sneering at the idea that men will not care to walk for three or four minutes out of their way to reach the club...