Word: reverted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really good oarsman; to grind "form" into, his system so thoroughly that he will hold it under pressure of extreme exhaustion. How hard then to expect eight men to re-learn rowing in a year so thoroughly that they will not "crack", or have off days when they revert to their old rowing habits. The Freshmen have nothing to which to revert. As to the idea that it is "guts, not form" which we want, let me suggest that it is speed which we want-a thing to be obtained only by the combination of "form" and "guts". "Form" without...
...Polo Grounds on Labor Day. Wills deserves his chance. His unobtrusive steadiness between professional engagements would seem to prove that he would grace a title with more dignity than certain of his Ethiopian brethren of the past. Then, too, Dempsey must fight soon again-or revert to digging coal...
...this new and very attractive Harvard periodical is really going to lay the axe to the root of the tree, it will need, I think, a bit more weight in the head of the axe and a keener edge to the blade. Or rather, let us revert to entomology. There is an insect something like a gad-Fly, which buzzes just as loudly, and is even more glossy and friendly and inquisitive and circulatory. It bothers some persons, but it never actually bites. It is known as the June-bug. But it will take more than a June...
...would revert again to the undergraduate life of the College and present for the consideration of men of the student body the conviction that here among us the influences are too much toward hammering out on the anvil of conventional sentiment 'a standardized type; Not that this tendency may not be too much present in American colleges in general, but our present concern is with Dartmouth life! Given common convictions against the cheap, the low, the unintelligent and the evil, the greater the variety of types and of attributes among Dartmouth men, the stronger the College will be. The evidence...
...Last year, however, it was in charge of a committee representing the University, and was held on a much larger scale than usual, as a special tribute to the 369 University men who lost their lives in the war with Germany. This year the conduct of the exercises will revert to the Memorial Society, with the James A. Shannon Post also participating in the direction of them for the first time...