Word: proving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Osborne then told how he had been appointed warden of Sing Sing and to explain the league which he had instituted there. He showed how willing the prisoner was to do his part if an opportunity was given him. To prove this he cited instances where men had gone out and led straight lives, and read extracts from several letters, of which the most significant one was the following: "You ask me how I have been doing. I should be an awful fur if I should make a promise and then break it. You never want to be untrue...
...scheme of education, for the sake of listening to some particularly famous member of the Harvard Faculty. If he does so, and does not take the trouble to gain a personal acquaintance with his professor he is failing in half his avowed purpose. Relations of this sort often prove of more value than the actual work of the courses, and by being continued in after life may become a permanent source of inspiration long after the work itself is totally forgotten...
...back and with a number of good substitutes and members of last year's Freshman team, the loss of Captain Peacock, of the 1916 seven, will not be seriously felt. The present captain and centre, W. H. Schoen, has had two years' experience on the first team and should prove the nucleus of a fast and aggressive combination this year
...beginning of this year's football season the prospect for a Harvard team comparable to those of the last few years seemed slight. In the face of great difficulties, Coach Haughton has developed a fighting unit which has defeated Cornell and Princeton. However strong the Yale eleven may prove, we may feel certain that the omnipresent influence of Haughton's system will be evident. This year's football team deserves greater credit than some of the more famous teams of former years, for it has proved its worth against great odds. If the eleven picked men live...
...defeated. The victory of the Medford team was undoubtedly due in great measure to the fact that it had prepared for many days for the contest with the University, while Coach Leary had not made any more than the usual preparations for a so-called "minor" college team. Tufts proved to be anything but a "minor" college eleven and showed the fallacy of placing so early on the schedule a team which is likely to prove a stumbling block in the progress of the University team