Word: snap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Owen seemed the surest in handling his stick and the speediest in breaking up any semblance of a Tech offensive drive. The forward line, shifted from time to time to allow the substitution of almost every player available to Coach Claflin, performed with accuracy and fair speed, though lacking snap...
...much like the result of a grouch arising from the receipt of a postcard bearing unfavorable news. It is only one of the cruelties of fate, this disappointment of the student who is led to take a course by the false impression that it is going to be a snap, and is quite overcome by finding that it isn't, but that he really is expected to know something about it. We all, I am sure, deeply sympathize with those poor mortals who find their burdens so great and their minds taxed so heavily by the requirements of certain courses...
...University captain opened the scoring just six seconds after the bell with a neat snap from scrimmage. Less than two minutes later a pass out by Emmons from the corner gave him an opportunity to drive a second shot past Root, the Yale goal guard. During the twelve-minute scoreless scramble which followed, Yale never had a chance to shoot from nearer than mid-ice, while only the herculean work of the diminutive Captain Carson kept the Blue goal inviolate...
Team work was the ultimate factor which kept the Crimson slate clean, and to a lack of this essential must be attributed the failure of Coach Mansell's line to snap the puck home. During the closing minutes of play the Agricultural seven had a half-dozen chances to score which were spoiled by bunching-up and inability to maintain a passing game...
There have always been "snap" courses in Harvard and every other college. The elimination of them has been like decapitating the hydra, as soon as one course is lopped off two grow in its place, in spite of the almost Herculean efforts of the committee. The truth remains that it is still possible for the crafty undergraduate to choose his courses so judiciously that he can obtain a degree with much less than the "required" amount of study. The fact however, that some of those courses which require the greatest amount of work are the most popular in the college...