Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with the men prominent in undergraduate affairs, for the candidates are thrown with them constantly. The competition is also a valuable business training, for it not only gives a good first hand knowledge of newspaper work, but also skills a man in sizing up a situation and reaching a quick decision. There are several vacant positions on the board, from two to four of which--depending upon the capacity of the candidates--will be filled this fall...
...while the coaches draw the moral in an accompanying lecture. This is the third novelty Hinkey has injected into the football studies of the members of the squad. The first was heaving forward passes by electric light, the second the importation of three or four Canadian players to exhibit quick dodging, criss-cross running and passing...
...most prominent figure in the line was Trumbull, who began the season at left tackle in masterful style. He was quick to size up plays, and with Pennock at his side every attempt at the left was smeared in short order. In a team whose line needs padding in spots, Trumbull is a tremendously valuable man, his fight and quick-thinking doing much to make up for the defects of the others. On the right side, Cowen's services were missed, Bates several times finding holes in tackle or guard. Hardwick at right end played a slashing game, making several...
...blue team's batting prowess should cause especial disquietude in the Harvard series. As a whole, the nine is almost the equal of Harvard in this respect, and is exceedingly quick to take advantage of a weakening pitcher. While Harvard has seven men batting over 300 per cent, and Yale only two, the batter's general average is more consistent...
...opportunities in journalism, they are boundless. Any man, no matter what his profession, would be the gainer by two or three years' devoted service as a newspaper reporter. The experience he would amass, in quick thinking, in the power of swift and direct expression, in knowledge of men and affairs, he would find invaluable. Often, after a few years of work, a reporter, thrown into contact with lawyers or doctors or scientists or business men, discovers in himself an unsuspected aptitude for one of these other pursuits, and leaves his first choice for the new. But he carries with...