Word: progress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...history of football is one of progress. Forbidden by kingly edicts way back in the fourteenth century and legislated against from time to time it has always survived. The scrub team is to my mind the most valuable in its development of the real eleven. They are the educators and they take their knocks uncomplainingly. Next is the quarterback, for if a team loses him it loses its sense of direction. It's his sand and pluck that tell-his patience to learn the play, to master the detail, even when hard, and after all that's what...
With lack-lustre eyes we take our dials--those large, combination, chronological, time-telling dials which indicate the day of the month and the progress of the moon and give a musical interpretation of the hour, if you push the right button--from our pokes, and gaze. Funny enough! The Mid-Years are upon us. In short, they begin today. If they would only catch cold like the rest of us, and--here the analogy becomes ineffective--be permitted to hibernate for a week in Stillman, we could take advantage of the miserable weather to stay indoors and fortify...
...progress on the new skating rink has been rapid and the first practice was held on Sunday, January 20. During the week the basketball team was defeated by Wesleyan 31 to 19 in a fast and hard game, but won from Pennsylvania 26 to 23. On Friday evening the University swimming team defeated the City College of New York in a swimming meet held in the Carnegie pool by a score of 46 to 7. After the meet the C. C. N. Y. water polo team was defeated by Yale, 50 to 8. On Wednesday a general call was issued...
...recently, the color of stars has had but little scientific value. It has now become an exact science, the chief working principle of which is to photograph the star first by yellow light and second by blue light. A vast piece of work in this field is now in progress which will make, when finished, a valuable contribution to the laws of the universe...
...which Mr. Mears will describe was made by him last summer for the New York Evening Sun to beat the former record time for a complete circuit of the earth. He accomplished this aim by completing the trip in 32 days. Stereopticon slides will be used to illustrate the progress of the trip and the places passed through...