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...three of the major spring sports give promise of success. A healthy, well-knit backing is needed in order that they may follow the lead of football and hockey in making this a Harvard year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OLD CALL | 3/1/1920 | See Source »

...April 5, when a second team, composed of A. W. Blackwood '05, G. Clark 2L., and G. W. Putnam 2G., was also selected. Since then the University team has held frequent debates with the second team and, under the coaching of A. A. Ballantine 1L., a very logical and well-knit case has been developed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATE WITH YALE TONIGHT | 5/5/1905 | See Source »

...picture of Hamlet goes, Mr. Tree deserves much praise. He is graceful and well-knit, and he suggests extremely well a melancholy, northern prince. But his presentation of Hamlet is to a very great degree confined to the trappings and outward show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Copeland's Lecture. | 4/3/1895 | See Source »

...experience. His feelings, his "Appreciate comments" on the world are not to reveal to him truth; only his "Descriptions" are to be objective. All that he assumes of the outer world is that it is describable. As such, however, it turns out to be a world of a "well-knit" order; for only the "well-knit" is describable. Hence the world of Realism has "laws" in it; and these laws themselves turn out, when freed from our mere appreciative comments and additions, to be, in the last analysis laws, of "matter and motion." The describability of phenomena in space...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course on Modern Thinkers. | 12/19/1890 | See Source »

...fight hard for the third goal, but the fourth, fifth and sixth followed each other in rapid succession. Just as it was beginning to grow dusk a fine run by Twombley gave them the eighth and a moment after the game was closed. The Yale team are a well-knit set of men, good runners as a rule, and work well together through constant practice. They have the advantage of a practice ground near at hand. Columbia suffers in this respect. The men have to take a couple of hours' ride to reach the field, and it is hard work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE VS. COLUMBIA. | 11/20/1883 | See Source »

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