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Word: united (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...played, and the judgment formed by the team of its strength from these games is an erroneous one. It is not at all strange that in practice against an inferior team, individuality is more strongly apparent in the superior team, than when it is compelled to play as a unit so as to win. Thus it is that individual players on our team are too apt to disregard the other members of the eleven in their practice, and thus in an important game where combined strength would succeed, it cannot be put forward on account of lack of practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YALE FOOT-BALL TEAM. | 11/1/1883 | See Source »

...development of the elective system, and the increase of laboratories and collections within twelve years, have necessitated the reorganization and development of instruction by subjects or departments. Each department of instruction, as for example, the department of classical philology, history, philosophy, chemistry, physics or natural history, is a unit which has a structure and growth of its own. Each has several teachers whose various courses of instruction should be arranged in a just order, and each has collections and apparatus which should be brought together, used harmoniously, and increased systematically, by the co-operation of all the teachers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN. | 10/22/1883 | See Source »

...generic term now applied to the higher class of clerical schools) by his way of conducting himself in the presence of his elders," says the London Times. "The lyceen is a rougher fellow altogether. He lives in a sort of barracks, wears a uniform, counts only as a unit in a mass who are governed in a semi-military fashion, and gets little or no separate attention from his masters. Outside the college walls no moral restraint is put upon him at all. If a professor saw him smoking or drinking spirits in a cafe on Sunday while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETIC SPORTS IN FRENCH COLLEGES. | 5/12/1883 | See Source »

...McCosh, in a recent letter on the question of societies in Princeton, says that although at first the faculty were not unanimous in the suppression of secret and the establishment of open societies, at present they are a unit. This is true, he says, not only of the parents, but also of the alumni, and a large majority of the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 11/23/1882 | See Source »

...every man who has ever played the game show himself upon Holmes Field prepared to engage in the practice games. Let every man who has never played show himself on the field, and by his presence let those who have to do the practice know the college as a unit is thoroughly interested and alive to this department of athletics. Let '86 not be backward through a false sense of modesty, but work with the other classes, and she may be sure that if she has the talent it will be immediately recognized. If all will take hold with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/2/1882 | See Source »

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