Word: stratagems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Agan and again the Meds tried to gain the vantage point, but every time they were repelled. At last they had recourse to a stratagem. By a sudden flank movement they baffled the college men, and getting hold of the bowl they charged against the doors of the dead-room. A horrible sight greeted the college men, and they drew back with terror. But the repulsive grins of the "stiffs" were to the Meds only smiles of welcome from old friends. They closed the doors after them, and a minute later they showed the bowl from the third-story window...
room. The game calls for skill and stratagem instead of brutality and unnecessary roughness, for manly pluck and perseverance, instead of tit for-tat kicks and blows. Just here the writer urges the spectator uninformed as to the game not confound running tactics such as 'warding off' with blows. 'Warding off' never hurts the player, warded off, since by the rules the runner is not allowed to strike with closed fists. Professor Johnston remarks that the chief evil of the game is betting and urges the undergraduates 'to put down betting on the purely material side of the game-partly...
...casting down her eyes and sighing; but on looking out under her lashes, she saw that Yung was doing the very same thing. Clearly nothing was to be gained by this method of action. Since, then, the enemy was too wary, or rather too diffident, to be caught by stratagem, she resorted to the besieger's arts; she approached him by parallels. But not even then was Yung conquered; he remained safe in the fortress of his diffidence, though he did venture one or two glances at the approaching...
...requires skilful timing of your movements, but your whole energies are bent upon the task before you, and at last, to your infinite satisfaction, you succeed in making the enemy come to rest. You are very much relieved and considerably set up at the success of your stratagem. You feel that you have shown a deep knowledge of cause and effect in nature. You smile complacently at your friends on shore who are breathlessly watching you, and you are resolved that they shall see you calm, cool, and collected. You think the battle over. Alas! you know not the diabolical...