Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshmen a four run advantage which the key men were unable to overcome. Inasmuch as it was the initial workout, Captain Lazo did not dare leave any of his slab-men in the box for more than two innings, as any glass arms on the pitching staff would prove disastrous on May 30, when the high stand men meet the Eli scholars. This forced change in pitchers put the key at a big disadvantage...
...answer to the question as to how he thought this would occur, Senator Ladd said: "It will come by a general breaking down of the railroads. This will prove to the country the impossibility of satisfactory or efficient management under private ownership, and, in self-defence the Public will demand that the Government step in. After that it will be only a question of time before the Government either owns or controls all the railroads, under some system to be worked out later...
...yard section. He is also capable of done the mile in close to 4 minutes, 20 seconds, Seimens and Willson are two other milers who should place. In the two-milers relay team at the Penn Carnival, is the chief Yale entry. Rich and Johnson should prove able assistants...
...chances of the meet now being held are very slight. There is a possibility of the Association's obtaining planes from the Curtis company, but the cost of renting and insuring the necessary number is likely to prove too heavy for this plan to be considered...
...tendency to criticize the American college system is becoming almost a disease. Adverse views, unless carefully considered, should be withheld, lest they prove superficial and destructive. For the great majority of undergraduates, the present system of mass instruction is adequate at least; but does not the exceptional man deserve something more? College authorities, the country over, in their rush to gain members, too often neglect the scholar. In the whirl of business that surrounds the present day university, the brilliant student should not be left to receive only the teaching that is given to the ordinary...