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Word: standing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...boys were utterly unable to stand up against their opponents. Their defense was pitifully weak at the critical moments when the CRIMSON offensive swept down toward the goal, and the Lampoon bounced off the impregnable CRIMSON defense as from a stonewall. This first victory in hockey is still another proof of the well-known fact that in no branch of sport can the Lampoons hope to compete with the CRIMSON athletes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another Crimson Victory | 2/28/1907 | See Source »

...celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow h.'59, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish languages and literatures, and Professor of Belles Lettres, in the University from 1836 to 1854. Sanders Theatre was crowded to the utmost so that many were forced to stand, and many others could not gain admittance. Professor C. E. Norton '46, chairman of the assembly, opened the meeting by a short address, which is printed in full below. The other speakers of the evening were President Eliot '53 and Colonel T. W. Higginson '41. A poem, which is also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONGFELLOW CENTENARY | 2/28/1907 | See Source »

American scholarship will be judged, not by the quantity of routine work produced by routine workers, but by, the small amount of first class output of those who, in whatever branch stand in in the first rank. No industry in combination and in combination will ever take the place of this first-hand original work, this productive and creative work, whether in science, in art, in literature. The greatest special function of a college, as distinguished from its general function of producing good citizenship, should be so to shape conditions as to put a premium upon the development of productive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRES. ROOSEVELT'S ADDRESS | 2/25/1907 | See Source »

...achieve results, instead of confining himself exclusively to disparagement of other men who achieve them, he must manage to come to some kind of working agreement with these fellows of his there are times of course when it may be the highest duty of a citizen to stand alone, or practically alone. But if this is a man's normal attitude if normally he is unable to work in combination with a considerable body of his fellows it is safe to set him down as unfit for useful service in a democracy. In popular government results worth having can only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRES. ROOSEVELT'S ADDRESS | 2/25/1907 | See Source »

...Dartmouth game, which is the third in the intercollegiate league for the University team, will be played at 3.30 o'clock, and the McGill game will be called at 3 o'clock. A wooden stand accommodating 160 people has been built close to the south side of the rink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spirited Hockey Practice | 2/5/1907 | See Source »

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