Word: snap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent games, due to the temporary installation of substitute backs and guards at center. Captain Callahan, though kept out of games and all scrimmage recently, has been handling the ball enough to show that his aim is as true as ever. The signal session went off with increased snap and boded ill for Folwell's Navy team. There were no really serious injuries following Saturday's defeat of the Generals. Scheerer, whose play scintillated Saturday, is "riding" a charley horse, and Halsey, big guard, was somewhat bruised. Both will resume scrimmage in a few days. Thomas returned to his former...
...series of biographical sketches of snap courses was to be written, it would follow a mould as definite as do the histories of nations. A thoroughly sincere instructor offers an interesting subject in a manner so informal, so free from petty demands, that once this reputation is established the course is over whelmed by that class of incomprehensible students who regard a successful life impossible without a college degree but meanwhile struggle to make that degree mean as little as possible...
There is obviously something unfair in the attitude that forces an instructor to impose petty requirements on a course in order to free it from the stigma of classification as a snap. The system is wrong that compels a professor to act toward his classes as a policeman continually watching for minor infringements of obscure ordinances that would never be necessary if the student could learn to interpret broadly and honestly the spirit of a few inclusive laws...
...into the net. The Princeton rally was short lived, however, and before the teams left the ice for the initial intermission H. B. Snelling '21 and Bigelow each sent the disc past Maxwell; the former on a long low shot from centre ice, and the latter with a short snap shot after an individual dash down the rink...