Word: small
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...importance to a team's success of a good squad of substitutes is shown very clearly in the case of the small college. Frequently a small college can get together eleven good football players, nine good baseball players, seven good hockey players, and as long as these first teams play against the first teams of larger colleges they often meet with success. The reason so many small colleges have good baseball teams is because in baseball substitutes are seldom needed...
...football, on the other hand, if three or four good men get laid up in practice or in a game, the small college team is severely crippled, while the big college, with many more candidates to choose from and much keener competition for places on the team, can always put in a substitute who is nearly as capable as the regular whose place he takes. Even if the small college players are not injured, they are pretty well exhausted by the time the last quarter comes around and several fresh substitutes are often enough to batter their defence...
...prose is on the whole better than the verse. The anonymous "Note on Carlyle," whether its doctrine is acceptable or not, shows competence and vigor. Mr. Fisher's "Lanky" is an unusually good story, exhibiting in a small space some skill in plot, character, setting and surprise. Mr. Scholle's "Fair at Lausanne," which in its paragraphing recalls the Boston American, is alive with good detail. Mr. Fay's "On Keeping a Diary" gives an impression of quaintness without affection, and abundance without waste. Of the editorials on the proposals of peace, the second is the more striking. The review...
This number of the Monthly, whatever its defects, aims high and achieves no small measure of success...
...Sometimes a group will gather and an amateur forum is organized, like nothing so much in the broad world as a Ladies Aid Society holding a sewing bee. To the weary and unwilling listener to these parleys it seems strange that so much wisdom could be contained in so small a space. Surely Diogenes and his tub had nothing on a few loquacious spirits and their library...