Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first real try-out of the season last Saturday, the Yale varsity eleven scored two touchdowns on the second team. Though there was much fumbling, the team worked in good form. The first score was made by Welser's line-plunging after about five minutes of play, and the second near the end of the game. The forward pass was much in evidence during the final quarters...
Princeton still faces the problem of building up an almost entirely new team around the three regulars who have returned. Though the line will be unusually heavy, the backfield is light and inexperienced. Consequently, it is expected that the team will be powerful on the defence, but weak in attack. Toward the end of strengthening the latter, much time is being spent on developing the forward pass and open play...
...rests with the serious-minded upperclassmen, particularly the men who have made good in the College world, to most one of the last shreds of Harvard indifferences. If these men would attend Chapel regularly, we are certain that an increasing number of new students could say that, though Chapel was not compulsory at Harvard, they liked to go to the services and generally did because they were inspiring and because the best men went. We all of us willing to do what is "au fait" but few of us have the moral courage to do a thing unless...
...tide has steadily set toward what may best be termed the democratizing--though I very much dislike the phrase! --of the higher education. Democratizing means always materializing and commercializing. It means the rush for business,--for mere money-making...
...take Felton's place as a punter, there will be Hardwick, who, though not as sure nor as pretty a kicker as his team-mate, can punt on an average about as far. As for drop-kicking, Brickley is still in College. For line-plunging, where Wendell was so valuable, there is room for development. Hardwick and Brickley are both good men in a broken field and Bradlee shines on the defence, but none of them can compare with Wendell in line-tearing...