Word: secret
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...particular nation or nations in mind; he could not be referring to all the European nations? As for ourselves, we find it quite impossible to fit any of the countries involved satisfactorily into the part of highwaymen or victim. To each country it was represented through the medium of secret diplomacy that the nation "was cornered"; in each country the advice of the military authorities to strike hard and strike first was followed. Anyone who has heard the story of refugees from the war districts will not care to discuss the result. Can Mr. Schenck consistently make the suggestion that...
...Saturday this afternoon against the scrub eleven. The first team was able to score twice, Scovil and McLeish making the touchdowns and Le Gore kicking the goals. A number of graduates assembled in the Bowl to watch the scrimmage, which was held for the purpose of perfecting the defence. Secret signal practice and the regular routine work were held on the old field previous to the scrimmage, five teams running through the rehearsal of signals. The line-up was as follows: l.e., Brann; l.t., Talbott; l.g., Conroy; c., White; r.g., Walden; r.t., Betts; r.e., Higginbotham; q.b., Wilson; l.h.b., Ainsworth; r.h.b...
University football practice yesterday was the most complete afternoon's work that has been given to the squad this season. A long black-board talk in the Locker Building, a short secret session in the baseball cage and the usual closed practice in the Stadium constituted the work given to the men in the final perfecting of the team which is to contest with Yale Saturday...
...most important functions in the developing of the University football team, generally misunderstood by the student body and subject to undergraduate criticism is that of secret practice. Why do the coaches deem it advisable, the undergraduate argues, to debar him from seeing the football team in action daily, following its progress, and watching the progress of polishing the eleven by the coaches? Would not the team be benefited by student attendance in open practice daily? At the outset the CRIMSON wishes to correct some of the misunderstanding prevalent among the student body in regard to secret practice, and advance sound...
...first place the idea exists among undergraduates that secret practice means literally practice conducted in absolute secrecy, with the intention of preventing any new plays from being carried away by the spectators and reaching the ears of our adversaries. This is further strengthened by the strange truth that on each Saturday the undergraduate sees but little change in the team's style of playing, with but few new or startling plays in its method of attack. Secret practice is not conducted primarily to keep secret the team's development. It claims a far more worthy aim; that of permitting...