Word: showings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...results of Saturday's football contests show that with one or two exceptions the Eastern football elevens are showing results of weeks of strenuous coaching by playing to form as the apex of the season approaches. Most of the teams showed a marked improvement over their playing in the games of a week ago while others seemed to have failed to strike their strides...
Experts agree that the game in the Stadium Saturday was the best exhibition of finished football to be seen in Eastern football this season. Although neither team was able to show its entire offensive hand with the Yale games one and two weeks away, the victory of the University eleven, by the narrow margin of a single field goal, was an accurate indication of the relative strength of the two teams...
...president of the United State. President Wilson, Justice Hughes and ex-President Taft and Roosevelt are not only college men but members of phi Beta Kappa as well. It seems to be a rather strong indication that the men who do good work in college are the men who show ability and win people's confidence in after life. If you want to be President of the United States or to make a mark for yourself in any field, now is the time to lay the foundation. -Wisconsin Daily Chronicle
...interesting indeed that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is able to contribute the professor who will conduct the newest of extension courses in Boston on such a subject as "European National Development." The very topic which Professor C. F. A. Currier has chosen for the subdivisions of his lecturing show how closely his mind must have been concerned with the great currents of civilization and the problems affecting the individual and corporate life of the peoples, while his colleagues have been devoting themselves to the splendid advance of the Institute's technical training. His course for the Commission on Extension...
...Crimson had prepared an open style of play for particular use against the Cornellians, who specialize in the forward passing game, and this use of their own plays against them was the downfall of the visitors. Much had been expected from Cornell but the failure of the eleven to show any real power did not detract from the great victory of the Crimson team. The Haughton system was again vindicated and the University team at once became a real factor for the Princeton and Yale games and was no longer considered a second-rate organization...