Word: showing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ashamed to chronicle such figures in connection with class football. It is, or should be, the most popular of the minor sports at this season. This year especially, with an unusually long series of games to provide competition, there is opportunity for the best men to show their worth and for the development of team play...
...elective system has had little influence. In a little more than a century the Military Academy has sent out nearly five thousand graduates, trained in its strict curriculum, who have held and now hold places of trust and responsibility in official and in civil life. No college can show an equal number of alumni with better average records for public service. It is the West Point that trains men not only in engineering and in military science, but also in discipline and the proper discharge of responsibility, that will be described tonight...
...though they kept the ball in their opponent's territory during the rest of the half, they failed to score on account of repeated penalties and fumbles. In the second half the Freshmen by occasional spurts managed to score twice again. At no time did the Noble's team show any ability to gain consistently through the Freshmen...
...figures can show the material progress of the University enrollment statistics published today reflect a satisfactory condition of growth in nearly every department. In the College the entering class justifies the expectations as to numbers to which the entrance examinations gave rise, and when Freshman classes are large the welfare of other undergraduate and graduate departments is assured for future years. It is a regrettable fact that through many early graduations and some failures by the way the Senior class is but little more than half as large as the Freshman class. To the impartial mind it would seem that...
...whereas the reverse should be the rule to follow. In their studies, students are inclined to wait for their instructors to tell them how and why to do their work. "The true scholar," said President Lowell, "does not wait for a Professor to come along with a lantern and show him the way. He simply breaks right in without delay, and gets what...