Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Second defence is weak with his long throw, and his passing is wretched. He lobs the ball and seldom gets it into the stick of the man he is passing...
First attack catches, dodges, and shoots well as a rule. Occasionally he lets long catches bounce off of the end of his stick instead of scooping them. He works very well with second home...
First home needs experience. He is learning to check the goal's stick, an important duty of first home. He will make just the man for the place if he works hard...
...what profession a man takes, as long as he is not a round egg in a square hole. Be the man who, when he is told to do a thing, goes and does it. Have temperance, perseverance, self-control. Remember Horace's "Ne cede malis," and Holmes' verses beginning "Stick to your...
...give us the highest ideals of living, is to teach us to see what is right, and to stick to it unflinchingly, she must care more for the right than for money and popularity. It would be better for her to make men out of a few, than to give a parchment degree to thousands. Moreover, we must hear less of expediency and inexpediency. We must not be told that Harvard is afraid to take the stand for perfect religious freedom, because she fears unpopularity among certain classes. A church and a university can always afford to strive...