Word: styling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Princeton backfield will be a light one and hence Coaches Andrews and Bluenthal are developing the open style of play. Merritt, Streit, and Gile have been used in the fullback position, while Captain Baker and Glick have played halves. Boland is being tried at quarterback...
...Seldes follows. Is it really necessary to make a somewhat involved subject less attractive by use of a heavy Latin vocabulary and sentences lacking ease? Surely the subject still needs in a publication like the Monthly persuasive presentation if it is to win readers, and here the style rebuffs rather than attracts...
...whole, then, there seems to be more available material for next year than has been the case for many years. With Doctor Sexton coaching again, and the men well grounded in his style of play, the 1914 baseball team should approach the high water mark of baseball at Harvard...
This paragraph is taken (and we beg to say taken accurately) from the pitiful crew story that seasoned the American's daily hodge-podge of journalistic fish stories yesterday. We may agree with yellow editors, to a very limited extent, that stories must be written in a style, that will appeal to the people, but we refuse to believe that the people are asking for downright lies. Such a direct and apparently intentional perversion of the statement that a Harvard victory over the Yale crew is not a fixture will warm every loyal Harvard man to several degrees beyond white...
...article also states that this "decrease in interest" is due to the "decrease in the practical value of the sport." It is hard to conceive in what way the "practical value" has declined during the past years, as duelling went out of style long ago. The fact that at both West Point and Annapolis fencing is required as part of the curriculum ought to be sufficient proof that our government still considers it practical enough. Moreover, fencing as an official sport is increasing not only among colleges, but among preparatory schools as well. Both Exeter and Groton started the sport...