Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...circumstance, but the facts bear out such a judgment. The teams are so evenly matched in ordinary play that, leaving the punting out of consideration, they are likely not to score at all, or else to play a tie game. Accordingly, the side which is stronger in punting will resort to it constantly, and in that way force the other side to punt. The result will be that eventually the side which punts best will gain solely on exchange of kicks and finally score...
...examinations by their aid do not do the work for which the Faculty gives degrees. While it is perfectly true that seminars might be rightly used, and may perhaps be so used by one man in twenty, the fact remains that to most men they stand as a last resort in case their regular work is neglected. That the existence of this last resort tends to the neglect of regular work is undeniable...
...these 265 are sold; the total number of two dollar seats is 216, and 192 are sold; the total number of three dollar seats is 833, and 483 are sold. The total number of applications was very fortunate since it made it necessary in no case to resort to any substitute order, and, at the same time, the number of applications is so large that it will make the occasion thoroughly Harvard...
Throughout, in composition the architect should hold truth before him as the ideal which he is striving to attain, he should never resort to constructive trickery. A bad idea suppressed is a triumph for the good...
Very soon the men who have neglected their college work will be forced by the nearness of the mid-year examinations to resort to some means for acquiring sufficient knowledge to pass the test and the usual business of seminars and tutoring will be in full blast. It is pertinent just at this time, befor the trouble has actually begun, to consider these seminars and to see whether they are not assuming dangerous proportions...