Word: taught
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...showing of Captain Wilson and his phenomenal material it is unfortunate that the step was not taken sooner. Today's game, the final test, will decide whether or not the step was taken too late. Whatever the result, it is certain that the experience of the 1915 season has taught Yale a great lesson, and that in future her elevens may be expected to produce a safer, saner, and a far better brand of football...
...season, then, shows a record of one defeat and seven victories. This year, certainly a not more than average one in point of material, should thus far have taught the schedule framers an important lesson; that with the rising excellence of "small college" football and with the reappearance of merely average material for Crimson teams, it will in future be advisable to confine all the preliminary and the first of the mid-season dates to contests which will build up the team and not retard it. Special preparations for "minor" games, made necessary by the fact that the "minor" teams...
Yesterday's practice was very short, and consisted simply of putting the finishing touches to an eleven which has been taught all the football it can learn before the game...
...have heard repeatedly from Harvard men in the last six months that to procure efficiency in peace and war there is great merit in implicit obedience. How is that as an educational doctrine among Harvard men? In the education which we received it was not obedience which was taught to us, but self-control and the development of personal initiative...
...capital of the British Empire, within a few hours of the main battlefield, the members of this club are profoundly moved by the sight of the wastage and wreck of war, and feel it their duty to carry out the traditions of wide and intelligent humane help so long taught in the University...