Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anything were needed to refute those occasional critics of the Harvard Glee Club who complain that by going in for first-class music the Club is killing the old college songs, the "Harvard Song Book" would do the trick. Certain graduates have written dismal letters to the "Alumni Bulletin" during the past two or three years, conveying an impression that always until now it has been a major sport for undergraduates to gather in compact groups about a piano of an evening and split the air with "Giniral Grant", but that the Glee Club is spoiling all this...
Above all there is the same early season combing of the Catalogue of Courses. Now is the time for the Higher Strategy of education. Football may have its tacticiams, its secret practice, and its trick plays. But for real generalship look to the strategists of the Widener steps, planning a campaign to defeat the extended fronts of Concentration and Distribution...
Five men who had already won their "H's" and 16 otheres classed at the beginning of the season as "green material" turned the trick for the Crimson. As in the football game last fall the University went into the contest as the underdog and fighting as it had seldom fought before, emerged victorious. In the final analysis it was the wonderful driving finishes of the Crimson runners at the tape which sent the Elis down to defeat...
Another fair question is, will knowledge of the facts turn the trick in our modern political life? The answer must be that it will not. People who wish to do what they can to improve government must keep in mind the part played in public life by emotions. Elections probably go far more frequently by what appeals to the heart than by any appeal to the head. Sometimes well intentioned men, who feel that they know over so clearly what is best for a city or state, are apt to rely simply on the presentation of the solution as they...
...trick at all to imitate a writer's style, especially if there are habitual outstanding excentricities of phrase and mental twist. The real parodist gets inside of his victim's mind, and compels him, not only in his own phrase and vocabulary but in his own kind of mental operation, to make fun of himself. Perhaps the beet example of this deadly skill in modern literature is that of Charles Stuart Calverly, that most brilliant of Victorian pranksters, who fairly reincarnated the very personality of his victims, An able citizen he, by the way, and of university fame; he still...