Word: wording
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Guernsey anywhere from Harvard's forty-yard line on she may not need touchdowns in order to win. For Guernsey is a toe artist of real stature. As to the Yale players individually it is impossible to speak, because not being numbered, the various men were identified only by word of mouth and word of mouth is usually inaccurate and misleading. Guernsey, of course, was recognized because he did the punting, and Way was known because he was prominent as a baseball pitcher and, besides, wore no head guard. The three centre men were impregnable, but the tackles and ends...
...year, a lighter and more graceful touch, sacrificing perforce something of robustness and broad appeal, much as would have been expected had the chief editorship passed to Mr. Nathan. The somewhat too numerous and too brief "items," written chiefly-vae victorious-by the editors, leave an impression of studied word painting with little that demands expression...
Anyone who reads the editorials of Old Mother Advocate probably found a subject of unexpected vivacity in the editorial entitled "A Word to the Wise" in the current issue. From her stately side-saddle posture on the back of Pegasus, Mother Advocate gravely admonishes us undergraduates, and especially us Seniors, to choose a vocation immediately...
...When their disqualification was made public, the attitude of Harvard students was refreshing. I have yet to hear a word of satisfaction either in the punishment of Yale teams. One and all the students have expressed their sympathy with their fellow-students of a rival college and their regret that such a player as LeGore, admired for his skill and respected for his personal qualities, should no longer match himself against Harvard men. With warm admiration for the Yale authorities in athletics, some of us yet believe that the reform of an evil, provided the evil is not a crime...
...Boyden's review of Hugh Walpole and Compton Mackenzie is admirable, not because it is the last word on these writers, but because it is a young man's unpretentious appreciation of the treatment of youth by two other young men. It avoids with uncommon tact that straining for an appearance of maturity and omniscience which is the vice of undergraduate criticism