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...attack to give him a real opportunity to show his field generalship to advantage. Williams was a brilliant ball carrier in the Harvard Princeton game, but he was playing more as a halfback than as a quarter. With the huddle system in use, he did not even yell the signals...
...cheering is truly miraculous. Every single fellow from Freshman (which class by the way has shown the worst spirit of any of the classes which have entered in the last few years) to Senior must get up in his seat and encourage that team. Don't be afraid to yell alone. There's no disgrace in it--get that out of your heads. IT IS BEING DONE! Don't wait to be spurred on by the leader, do your own cheering. Remember the game can only be won by YOU. And YOU will win it only by showing...
...judges have become widely known because of the part they had in any given trial. Sir George Jeffreys, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, "whose yell of fury sounded like the thunder of the Judg ment Day," after presiding (1685) at a series of trials known to history as the "bloody assizes," gained what Macaulay has described as "an unenviable immortality." (Macaulay's History of England, chapter IV.) Kenesaw Mountain Landis, tsar of professional baseball, became a national character when, as U. S. District Judge, Northern District of Illinois, he tried (1907) the Standard...
...yell of fury that "sounded like the thunder of Judgment...
...wild and enthusiastic yell...