Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...part to greater confidence and increased ability to work together. This was true of the linemen especially, although they failed to cover enough ground on punts. The backs were quicker in getting off and used better judgment in choosing openings. All of the men played with more snap and aggressiveness...
...Alison" of Miss Jane Sever was at every situation and incident delightfully expressive, and especially so in the fourth act, where she proved an adequate foil to Marlowe's intensity. Miss Emma C. Noyes as "Her Ladyship" looked the part to perfection, and gave it the required degree of snap and self-control, and Mrs. Hutchinson took full advantage of a short part in "Dame Benet...
...Hazy." or "?," DeTrop's absent minded servant, was in action and facial expression an extremely laughable figure. He spoke his excellent line with an inimitable drawl, and convulsed the audience by his solo "Absent-Minded," R. N. Baldwin '05 sang "The Ghost" and "Guidarello Gidarelli" with ease and snap. His burlesque of the sate ghost was amusing, but not consistent, even for the purposes of comic opera. For Gascon Abandon and D'Artagnan-like swagger B. Joy '05 was all that the part of DeTrop required, and his songs "Soldiers of Fortune" and "Gascony" gave life even to the well...
...many valuable studies are regularly avoided. Mr. C. S. Moore in a report on the class of 1901 showed that out of 372 students as many as 254 took no physics, 250 no mathematics, and 140 no philosophy. Another evil attendant upon this system is the election of "snap courses." Dean Briggs in 1900 declared that nearly 30 per cent, of the college took nothing but elementary, work throughout their college curriculum. On the other hand, confronting the earnest student is the danger of early and extreme specialization. Over 20 per cent, of the University begin to specialize at least...
...have not followed athletics very closely since graduation. My opinions must therefore be snap but you are welcome to them. The Stadium at the time it was built seemed to me to be a premium on the commercial in athletics and still seem so. However, you have got it now and also its debt. My suggestion about the $70,000 debt is to spread it over a longer period, say about ten years, making payments of $7,000 each year...