Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have played under Haughton, all present and past undergraduates, have the highest personal respect and football admiration for him. All are convinced that no man can fill his place. The big problem of Harvard football is.--Can Haughton be prevailed upon to continue as coach for the University...
...only 3 of the 16 series. The standing of the dual matches in tennis, gives the University a lead by 9 to 5. In the intercollegiate tournaments, University representatives have captured the singles honors 15 times and the doubles on 14 occasions, while Yale's standing in this respect is 6 victories in singles and 8 in doubles. Only 7 contests have been played between the two universities in soccer, University teams winning three times, losing twice, and tieing twice. The fencing series goes to Harvard 4 to 2. Two thirds of the dual cross-country runs have resulted...
...poems Mr. Cram contributes three, of which none shows a proper respect for the true value of words; and Mr. Willcox two, of which neither approaches his best work. Mr. Clark, pictorial as ever and musical, deserts "verslibre" and so far forgets himself as to rhyme "end" with "again"; Mr. Norris writes of the sea as "an enchanted moan; Mr. Gazzan in Dead on the Field of Honor, a poem of fourteen verses more or less rhymed, is guilty of the line "While underneath each one a heading tells...
...University team's development is the excellent condition of all the men. Aside from Thacher, whose sprained back will permanently keep him from playing for this season, everyone is in perfect trim for the last two games. To date, the 1915 eleven has been much more fortunate in that respect than was last year...
...importance. When a coach of a small college team is quoted as bragging that the eleven cost him so many thousand dollars, the previous season, what is the inference? A definite, combined effort to end this situation on the part of seats of learning which value their own self-respect and bear at the same time some regard for the mental and moral status of boys whom they receive as students, would be attended by immediate results. An association of institutions solemnly joined in compact to end, with respect to themselves at least, the present situation as regards preparatory school...