Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...While this may seem at first sight a complicated machinery, it is simple enough and should be eminently workable. It leaves the undergraduate captains with all of the authority over the teams and men that they have always had; their traditional interest in choosing the older men with whom to work out a system's problems are retained, except that their choices must be acceptable to the permanent body. Each athletic committee has full jurisdiction over all phases of its particular sport, internal and intercollegiate except that its acts must be authorized by the Board of Control. The whole loose...
...usual in her role of the light-witted servant. And, as usual, she plays the part of Lottie, the under cook, who can concentrate only on Scotch and romance, with the same success, the same ability to score a smile or a laugh at every line, all of which seem to have been written especially...
...Gulf" to Mesopotamia for a few months, at least, because the staff there is now complete. To tell the truth, neither Nash nor I were much disappointed. We had met a few men who had really been there since we left New York, and there didn't seem to be much romance in going to the Garden of Eden until the summer heat had subsided and the thermometer wasn't much over 100 degrees...
...dead feel that they were sacrificed--Rupert Hughes, for example, who acted without a moment's hesitation? To us who look with reverence upon our living, and with love upon our dead soldiers, it might seem that the profoundest answer to all these questions has been given by another French soldier, himself no mean artist, who gave up his young life for his country last year. "If fate claims the best," he wrote to his mother, "it is not unjust. The less noble who survive will thereby be made better. . . .Nothing is lost. . . The true death would be to live...
...urged that Yale cannot fore go such advantages unless her rivals follow her example, but present practice must, it would seem, lead to still greater lengths of extravagance and absurdity. For this reason it has been felt by your committee that ultimately the suggestion must be seriously considered that in time all payment of salaries to coaches of Yale athletics should cease, and unless Yale can from her own resources, graduate and undergraduate, develop her teams without such artificial stimulants, so that she can reasonably compete with her rivals, it would be best to eliminate intercollegiate athletics altogether until...