Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco. What happened yesterday at the Polo Grounds has had its parallel in occasional demonstrations in the Harvard Stadium against the home team. If manners make the man, our crowds have still much to learn. In the last analysis the level of sportsmanship depends as much upon the temper and ideals of the sporting public as it does upon the standards of the players themselves, whether professionals or amateurs. What wonder that the pages of professional baseball are sometimes marred by scandals, when the crowds that throng the grandstands are so ill-mannered and when there are among the spectators...
...former, let us hope that it will throw some further light on the incident so brilliantly alluded to by the London Punch in "Dropping the Pilot". Does Wilhelm regret his action, we wonder, and if so will he have the courage to say so? Or will he "temper Justice with Mercy" (for himself)? "A penny for your thoughts" is proverbial; the Kaiser is to get many such ponnies. Let us hope he has many thoughts to offer in exchange...
...them, but there are many on the other hand of widely differing gifts who will find in the legal profession all the opportunities they can ask. Any man who has a clear head, willingness to work hard, courage to meet men in controversy, and if possible an even temper, can make himself a lawyer. To it as to many other things applies the homely proverb "It's dogged that does it". Eloquence, a retentive memory, a quick wit, a sense of humor, a good voice and good presence all help, but men have succeeded in the law who had none...
...Latin requirements certainly explain why many sub-Freshmen prefer to hole out on the New Haven green rather than hazard the artificial bunkers and traps which guard the course to Cambridge. If we are willing to temper the wind to the handicapped lamb, let us by all means knock down a few bars and allow the relieving breeze to guide him gently to us; if not, why indulge in poignant grief at our own exclusiveness? Let us be honest with ourselves and others--let us retain our artificial barriers and glory in the fact that we have them in order...
...Conway Wingfield and E. E. Olive divide the leading honors of the production in their roles of the opposing leaders. As Annie Roberts, the martyred wife. Ingrid Dillon brings out sweetness and charm to temper a harrowing part which could easily have been overdone. Margaret Pitt plays slightly out of the directness and sincerity of the other characters treading dangerously near the melodramatic in her Madge Thomas, the head-strong working girl...