Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second University hockey team was defeated 2 to 1 by the Brookline High School yesterday afternoon. Owing to the extreme cold and a high wind the game was really not a fair trial of strength. A return game, to be played in Brookline, has been arranged for February...
...University hockey team will play its first game since the Syracuse trip against Amherst in the Arena this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Little is known of the strength of the Amherst seven as the team has thus far met no powerful opponents; a hard contest is, however, expected...
...against the B. A. A. for about 45-minutes, the scrimmage ending 5 to 1 in favor of the latter. The University team showed some improvement in passing, but lacked the dash and aggressiveness necessary for first-class work. As usual, the defense showed itself to be the strength of the team, and it was owing to its good work that the score was not larger. Adams scored the only point for the University from a shot directly in front of the goal. Coach Winsor played right centre for the B. A. A. during the last ten minutes of play...
Every year some newspaper man goes through the pawn shops of New York or Boston, and on the strength of discovering a Phi Beta Kappa key or two in pawn, writes an article to show that leaders in the scholastic world are generally failures in life. Probably no fallacy has more credence and less truth than this. Many undergraduates accept it as a fact because it consoles them in the belief that their mediocrity in college will, in some miraculous way, be converted into excellence in their professions...
...mending of the situation is easy. Personal sentiments should be set aside for the good of the College as a whole, and the advocate and the Monthly should combine. It is clear that in disunion there lies weakness. Proverbially at least, in union there is strength...