Word: say
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Personally, then, I may say that I have gained at least one great conviction in the years that I have followed intercollegiate athletics: a game that is worth playing at all is worth playing well. All youthful habits and tendencies are, of course, formative. This is recognized in the classroom where ill-ordered, half-hearted inefficient instruction is not tolerated, and where various measures are effective whereby students shall be inspired to a high sense of their opportunities as well as to lofty ideals concerning their duty to their college and their duty to themselves. In principle, at least...
...merriment, the affair may not forever have a humorous tinge. If the real publication has applied for a copyright it will not do for other persons to usurp its name and announce that they, too, have obtained a copyright, with all rights reserved. Ordinarily the Government has something to say about proceedings of this kind. Boston Transcript...
...accomplished pen. He sings musingly, refreshing as he sings a hackneyed metre, enchanting a passing moment. Mr. Ryan, on the contrary, strives to reveal the dramatic clash of will on will, of thought on thought. His verse is wrought carefully, studiously. If he were a violinist I should say of him that he doesn't pull a good long bow; he doesn't lift you on the line -- end -- stopped or run-on "The Other Man's Wife" is simpler than "The City of Dim Faces," and gains by its simplicity. The latter is, in form and substance, as hard...
dent, so that a man arriving here--say--from Japan just before the College opens in the fall would have no difficulty in securing quarters among the American students. And every group of men reserving a table at the College Commons should invite some foreign student to sit at their table...
Great personal emergencies are the final tests of men's characters. Theodore Roosevelt, shot while making a speech in Milwaukee in the presidential campaign of 1912, insisted on finishing what he had to say. Premier Clemenceau, barely escaping from death's door has announced to Secretary Lansing that he will attend the Council of the Great Powers on Tuesday. Not even a bullet could stop the tremendous energy of the great American and the great Frenchman...