Word: proving
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clock, provided the ice on some nearby pond is in suitable condition. The strength of the Andover team is uncertain as it has played no outside games this year. Although the University team has only practiced on the ice for five days the game this afternoon should prove an easy one as the forwards are fast skaters and the defence is strong...
...Chapel choir, Dean Hurlbut, who presided, briefly out-lined the purpose of the meeting. It is a fallacy, he said, that the first scholar in college is not the first man in the world, and it is the gentleman who will address you this evening who has helped to prove this statement, Frederick Perry Fish of the class...
...Clark concluded the argument for the affirmative. My colleagues have shown, he said, that football demands extreme and excessive methods and fosters a spirit that calls for success at any price. We have already shown that it is responsible for physical harm and mental mediocrity. Finally it remains to prove that the immoderate desire to win demands success at the sacrifice of honor and fair play. There is a distinct tendency today towards unfair, and brutal playing, and this unfits football for a place among college sports. Unfair methods are profitable towards victory, and there is every incentive to their...
...first speech of the evening J.D. Cronin, of the affirmative, outlined the existing conditions in San Domingo and stated the special issue. Intervention is necessary, he said. Shall the United States interfere or allow European powers to do so? He then went on to prove that the present policy of the administration is justifiable because it is fair both to the European powers and to San Domingo. For the negative E.R. Lewis opened the debate. He showed that conditions in San Domingo are not as serious as the affirmative had claimed, that for that reason the United States should hesitate...
...sculling under the supervision of Coach Wray and Captain Filley. A temporary first crew was formed, and on the following day a second crew went out. The order of these two crews, however, was at no time fixed, but practice in various combinations was held in order to prove which was most effective. At the beginning of of the year the squad was made up of the following men, the first eight in order rowing on the first crew: Filley, Newhall, Bacon, Richardson, Fish, Fahnestock, Tappan, Burchard, Morgan, Amberg, Glass, Warren, Emmons, Corlett, Gill, Wiggins. These crews reported every...