Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Where Yale shone, wherein she has hope to make trouble for Harvard, is in her punting and drop-kicking, her down field ability and sharp tackling of her team; the close, unerring following of the ball and the splendid spirit of the players individually and as a whole. Her wing defense and defense off tackle must improve between now and next Saturday, probably will. Her forward-passing game is not dangerous, and she launches a driving attack from her Minnesota shift formation better qualified for midfield gains than for gains inside her opponent's thirty-five-yard line. Perhaps...
...Americans, then, and especially the men of the University that has so closely associated its name with this splendid work, cannot afford to let its activities lag for want of support. The service needs men, and its needs money...
...second football team, which meets the Brown seconds on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock, has not had a single point scored against it during the entire season. The ower of its defense was well shown by its splendid stand in last Saturday's 6 to 0 victory over Princeton, when the latter team with the aid of a 15-yard penalty rushed the ball to the second's 6-yard line only to be hurled back and held for downs...
...past and the present of Germany has, I trust, made it clear that the German people of today is not, as its enemies declare, a degenerate perversion of a former and nobler type. On the contrary, with all its defects and excrescences of temper, it is a splendid outgrowth of a century's training in the national application of those ideals which distinguished the classic period of German literature and philosophy: unconditional submission to duty, unremitting endeavor for intellectual advance, assiduous cultivation of the things that give joy to the soul. A people that believes in these ideals cannot...
...physique and gaining experience in business, journalism, and other lines. At Phillips Brooks House tonight representatives of these various interests, as well as some older men, will speak. It is part of the Freshman's preliminary education to hear them, and learn how to break away from a too "splendid isolation" in the dormitories,--how to do something for his class and College...