Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...poems like the "Psalnt of Life," of songs like the "Marsellaise" and the "Star Spangled Banner"? Do I seem to exaggerate the significance of the thinker and his work?" said the late Professor Royce to his class one day. "He doubts, analyzes, pries into this and that, and men say, 'How dry, how repellent, how unpractical, how remote from life!' But after all he is prying into the secret places of the lighting of Jove, for these thoughts and passions upon which he reflects move the world." -Boston Herald...
...proper tendency, is to straighten up and get the nature, as well as the direction of the play, and this certainly militates against a proper defensive line charge. Then, too, the unbalanced formations and other practices designed to unsettle opposing linesmen play their part. All this is not to say that at present the balance between the offence and defence is not just; many will agree that the relation as at present maintained makes for more interesting football, and at the same time is an asset to the smaller college team, the so-called minor eleven...
...kidnapped the cheer-leaders for the Tufts baseball game? For the tensest and the most important game played in the Stadium this year Mahan and the team behind him had no organized support whatever. That the strain of the game was terrific, in intellectual terms say Othello's third act to the limit, all present will testify. Everyone seemed ready to throw open the Janus-faced gates of etiquette and let out a little unrestrained enthusiasm, but no leader was on hand to give us the keys. The situation, to put it mildly, was disgraceful. R.W. BABCOCK...
...Nickalls goes out of his way to say 'neither Princeton nor Cornell had a first-class crew.' That settles it, of course. I never said we had a 'first-class fast crew,' and I wouldn't have considered it delicate to say it doesn't take a 'first-class crew' to beat Yale five lengths, but since Mr. Nickalls says it himself, let it go at that. Mr. Nickalls says 'Yale finished nearly three lengths in the rear.' Making the best of the naval disaster is one thing, but altering the facts in order to do so is not considered...
...their teams automatically round into form. As a matter of fact, Cornell gets no more good schoolboy stars than any other college of like size. The real solution lies in the spirit which gets men out and makes them interested in working for their college. It is foolish to say that Harvard has no track material. Out of the 1100 odd men who are eligible for teams there must certainly be a fair percentage of men who are capable of being developed into point-winners, at least in the dual meets. Experience has proved again and again that practice alone...