Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most opportune that this day should come at a time when our outlook is the darkest it has been since we entered the war. But it is on the darkest night that the stars shine brightest, and so these honored dead must take on a new brilliancy for us today...
...series in our favor, but more than that it proved that the team has approximately reached the form of last year's championship team. The first games with Princeton and Yale were far from encouraging and forecasted a poor season for a team that started out with the brightest of prospects. Saturday's victory showed that the combination of team play and individual aggressiveness and accuracy has been obtained. If this combination can be kept during the remaining games, another championship will be a certainty...
...what has been advertised as the real product, but too often disappointment is the result. No one therefore who lacks his share of 1916 fun-inspirers should miss "His Majesty Bunker Bean," now playing at the Majestic Theatre, for much more than an average success is realized in this brightest of productions. Cleverness is the keynote which is maintained until the final curtain...
...years ago the huge concrete Bowl at New Haven, destined to be the mausoleum of Yale's brightest hopes, was appropriately christened with a Harvard victory. On Saturday, Harvard a second time faces Yale on the same field. Four successive victories have inspired an unshakable confidence in the ability of the Harvard team to win, and there only remains the danger that this feeling will develop into one of overconfidence, which is the first and longest step on the road to defeat. An overconfident cheering section is the worst enemy of its own team. Harvard is determined...
...brightest developments of the day was the discovery of an able quarterback in the person of Robinson, who replaced Willcox after the latter had again displayed his awkwardness in receiving punts. This seems to be an insuperable fault with Willcox, but his falling made way for the debut of a candidate who promises well. The playing of Robinson was not a surprice to those who have watched his work throughout the last week, and many had expected him to drive the team with a firm grip, as he did. He chose his plays with a clever judgment, caught every punt...