Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gospel of the hour and a very dangerous gospel it is. But every honorable man knows that success is often purchased at a price that leaves a man a moral bankrupt. This happens in football as in everything else and to colleges as well as to men. Some victories reflect discredit and not credit upon the college that wins them. Pressure is sometimes brought to bear upon the heads of colleges to silently acquiesce in this kind of athletic efficiency, or at least to turn a blind eye to methods which they know are ignoble. It is to their credit...
...truth to the scribes of this journal it is a matter of great debate and discouragement to answer the question which doth appear to us when we reflect upon how many there be among us who have not learned to relish the fruits of knowledge. 'How dull,' saith the uncultured as, yawning and stretching they emerge from the halls of learning. Wherefore must we abide these stupid dispensers of insipid facts. They interest us not with their long dissertations upon the doings of kings...
...been enormously increased during the last hundred years and that understanding has enormously increased man's power. I have lived for over eighty years; and the progress which man has made during those eighty years in scientific knowledge and therefore in power fills me with amazment whenever I reflect upon...
Carl Flanders, former Yale line star and coach, says in the Boston Herald: "It is eternally useless to accept anything but the final score, which stands in the records. Nevertheless it must be somewhat comforting to reflect that for 54 minutes of play the hue was distinctly Crimson and that six minutes before the final whistle, a field goal produced a score of 3-0, which seemed to measure, accurately the difference in the performance of the two teams...
...NOTE--The order of appearance of acts is indicated by annunciators each side of the stage, and the position given an act on the program does not in the least reflect on its merit. It is only fair to the artists, therefore, to judge their work solely on merit, and not by the order in which they appear on the program...