Word: stuff
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...upon the management by circumstances. "We sent the team against Princeton without knowing how well it would show up. But from the first minute the team 'came back.' And the fact that the team, in the last five minutes of play fought their way to a tie shows the stuff they are made of." Relative to the Yale game he said, "I was greatly impressed by the Yale team, their strength and power. But look at that eleven," (turning to the men on the stage). "No man can say that Yale will outfight us on Saturday...
...Junior canes are on sale at the Houston Club. Juniors since time immemorial have exercised their privilege to carry canes during this week. Don't call a University tradition rah-rah stuff. Don't think that you will be conspicuous because of your cane. If the class works as a unit, you will be far more conspicuous without...
...mortally wounded. About 7 A. M. a fragment of shell struck him in the neck, breaking a cervical vertebra. In the evening he called for a chaplain and asked him to read some verses from the Bible. When the chaplain had finished reading, he exclaimed, "That's great stuff, isn't it?" Shortly afterward, at 2 A. M., Colonel Shannon died. He was buried with full military honors, with several of his classmates and intimate friends present, in the U. S. Military Cemetery at the village of Froidos...
...best piece of work in the issue is "Cats" by I. J. Williams, Jr., '20. It is ingeniously put together with alternate bits of the naive and the blase, but it is real stuff. Mr. Williams is in service, and so this interesting essay whiffs of the trenches...
...cold calculation of what tomorrow may bring as well as today. But we oppose to them the pressing need for men now. The college man makes an able officer and in such a place every man should seek opportunity. But the college man is bred of the stuff that will make good in any capacity and which will soon rise to the top. Let the very young who are as yet unaffected by college training remain behind that they may prepare. But, let every man who has feil college influence over a period, of several years, no matter what...