Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University team took the ball on the seconds' 40-yard line and on the second play T. W. Gilligan received a lateral from Putnam and squirmed through the entire seconds outfit for a score After the seconds had received the ball and failed to budge the first team line. Putnam ran Fincke's kick back to the 23 yard line. Here he uncorked a 30 yard forward to Gilligan who worked his way for 20 more yards before being downed. After Gilligan made another first down Charles Devens crashed off tackle for the second score. Putnam's kick was good...
...final steps in the educational process as it is now applied. The student must first concentrate, or major, in one subject, and take several courses in that; then he must distribute, or minor, in other courses, taken from prescribed combinations of subjects. The first will make him profound; the second will make him broad. In most cases, however, he must have studied a certain amount of Latin or Greek, to make him classical, and modern languages in certain combinations to make him erudite...
...indeed any such still exist. It may be assumed that the latter class is in fact not a myth in order to justify a review of one of their productions; for the first mentioned class will go to see it no matter what the reviewer says, and the second mentioned couldn't by any amount of persuasion be induced to view such a spectacle after their initial experience...
...more risks than in the days of the horse there is the same cause to blame. Cars are made to go faster and faster, many of them are sold on the basis of their speed:--this one "can touch 73 without pushing," that one "can do 50 in second." The manufacturers are not guilty; they must follow the trend of competition. The human nature that makes undergraduates push their cars--as very often they push themselves--to the limit is the force that keeps many parents awake nights, the force that is too often responsible for a shocking tragedy...
...Blockading Squadron in 1898. In 1904 he commanded a landing party of bluejackets and marines that was landed in San Domingo to safeguard American and foreign interests during a revolution. He saw service in the Gulf of Mexico in 1904 and commanded the Destroyer Tucker, which was in the second group to reach Queenstown, Ireland, in May, 1917, and operated from Queenstown and later on escort duty in the North Atlantic. In June, 1929, after two years spent in Central American waters, he was detached from command of the U. S. S. Cleveland and assigned to duty at Harvard...