Word: whip
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University hockey squad ran through the last practice before the vacation on the Charlesbank rinks yesterday afternoon. Teams A and B had a brisk scrimmage which occupied the major part of the afternoon, as Coach Claflin is working hard to whip the team into shape for the opening game with Toronto on January...
...University football team's four chief opponents, Brown, Tufts, Princeton and Yale, are struggling hard to whip their teams into shape for Saturday's contests. Injuries have augured in the lists of all, but it is expected that none of the eleven will be seriously handicapped in their games Saturday...
...next statement is amazing. The "specialists" for this army--machine gunners, engineers, and so forth--are to be formed from a nucleus of regulars in case of emergency. Are the lessons of the recent war forgotten? The Regular Army took five months to "expand" and to whip recruits into shape. But human nature is ever optimistic. Next time we hope we will do better...
There is no law or whip that compels men to search investors, but a sense of duty and loyalty should be sufficient incentive to promote active campaigning. The machinery is organized, and it devolves upon the canvassers to make the loan a success. Wake up, and full speed ahead...
...hardly seems that the problem can be solved in such a simple manner. The undergraduate is a stubborn brute--with a little clever manipulation you can lead him anywhere you will but it is an almost impossible task to drive him with a whip. And this it seems to me, is what they are attempting at New Haven. There is but one way to make the undergraduate pay more attention to his books. That is, to increase his desire to learn; stimulate his curiosity and his ambition and make him conscious of his mental inferiority. Why do undergraduates slave...