Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fall of 1910, Haughton was successful in building up a very strong team, which, in spite of holding Yale to a standstill, was unable to score itself. The next year, the Yale game again resulted in a 0-0 tie. The University, although markedly superior and carrying the ball two yards for every yard that Yale gained, missed several good chances to drop kick, and fumbled when about to score...
...several decades we have plodded placidly along, pointing aimiably to our superior education that teaches the young, the old, the rich, the poor alike and reduces ignorance in the lower classes to a smaller proportion than in any European country. Now the veil is rent and we see a hideous condition of things; and at the same time there appears the root of a number of evils...
Recent citations of the American and French Armies contain the names of three University men. Captain John Mitchell '18, of the 95th Aero Squadron is cited, posthumously, by the U. S. Department for "extraordinary heroism in action." He was killed during an aerial combat against superior numbers, after having downed an enemy biplane, near Beaumont...
...young officers," he said, who have come under my observation, those from the Harvard and other college R. O. T. C.'s under the direction of foreign officers, show themselves far superior to the officers trained only in the Government camps. The men who had studied and worked in organizations directly under French or British officers had an inestimable advantage...
...most of the plans and practices of the Faculty we are prepared to submit without question, recognizing their superior wisdom in matters connected with the academic life of the University. But it is always well to bear in mind that "the best will sometimes fail" and the judgment of our superiors is by no means to be accepted in every case as infallible...