Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...unusual football strategy, but by the better execution of plays which have been used repeatedly in earlier games. This improvement was most noticeable in the strong defence offered to the attacks of the Dartmouth backs, and in the increased effectiveness of the offensive play when a score was in sight. The Dartmouth team was by far the strongest opponent met this season, and to have scored two touchdowns against it is no small achievement...
...series of scenes, humorous on the surface, yet large with tragic significance, Ravensbane is suddenly confronted with his scarecrow self, in the the glass of Truth. At the beginning of the fourth act, he is found in the deepest agonies of despair, for his kindled spirit revolts at sight of himself, as he really is. He at last recognizes the fiend in Dickon, revolts from his tutelage, breaks the pipe whose smoke has been the breath of his body, and falls at Rachel's feet, dying...
...Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, true Christian physician; a hero in all eyes but his own; the sight of whose ship from afar brings hope and joy to suffering...
...this event he is an almost certain winner, and Goddard is a possible point winner. Once more the hammer-throw presents a lack of heavy men, and Douglas and Parker of the 1912 team, each capable of only about 125 feet are the only other men in sight...
...essay, "A Plea for Leisure," recognizes a real need in college life that is often lost sight of in our discussions of three-year degrees, and incentives to work. "Leisure," the author says, "means a time for quiet reading, thinking and talking." Emphatically it does not mean a time of stagnation. Neither is it time taken away from study. A boy entering college is at a very impressionable, formative period. We, the teaching force, should find means to stir him intellectually, to rouse his ambition to do, and should also give him time to think, for all the new ideas...