Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Brickley made the first score on a sensational rush from midfield, and the third after a series of line plunges. The second was made by Hardwick, and the fourth by Bradlee after much ineffectual rushing. By this time the entire team was made up of substitutes, and although they were put on the defence for a long period, the seconds were not able to gain substantially After much scrimmaging the University again obtained possession of the ball, forced it into scoring position, and rushed Wallace across the line. The final score was made by Rollins at quarter...
...tide has steadily set toward what may best be termed the democratizing--though I very much dislike the phrase! --of the higher education. Democratizing means always materializing and commercializing. It means the rush for business,--for mere money-making...
...today. Once, all of its students were planning to engage in one of the three, so-called, learned professions--law, medicine or theology. Now, although the Law and Medical Schools are more active than ever before, the Theological School is nearly extinct; and, in the Academic Department, the rush is all toward science, technology and business, --toward the most practical studies, away from the classics, and away from culture,--in one word, the scholastic...
...moment imagine that Oxford and Cambridge will remain forever secure in their traditions. The English are more conservative than we, and their traditions are deeper-rooted than ours. Consequently their universities are enjoying, or at any rate having, a longer immunity from the sweep and rush of modern conditions. But they will succumb! Slowly but irresistibly the change will be wrought, and Oxford and Cambridge will be offering their graduate course in business, their higher instruction in industrial administration. The modern gods 'Efficiency' and 'Utility' will get them...
...rush of these modern days few things in the world are more ephemeral than the productions of our periodical press. Nothing is staler than yesterday's newspaper, -- if you have today's; and even in so staid and decorous an organization as the book club of any highly respectable New England town, the dignified Reviews and seemly humourous publications that make their prim march from house to house excite in most members of the club, would they own the truth, but very languid interest when at the earliest they arrive at least six weeks after the time of their first...