Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every Yale man knows this is the whole secret, perfect organization and nothing else. 1t is not phenomenal strength nor subtle trickery. It is careful attention to details, and until Harvard rowing undergraduates see to it that they place themselyes under the operation of the same thorough working plan and accept business like organization, defeat will come every year...
...Professor Johnson's article on 'The American Game of Foot-Ball' in this month's Century has been read with pleasure by the undergraduates of Princeton. Being well aware of the gentleman's thorough knowledge of the game as well as of his excellent powers of judgment in such matters, the college has looked forward to the publication of the article with eager delight and with a hearty appreciation of his staunch and able argument for a universal recognition of the game. Probably no one person has been so convinced of the injustice of many leading newspapers in this country...
...case undoubtedly lies in a lack of that kind of activity which is so requisite in matters of finance. The business of the treasurers of the boat club has become a routine which is vicious on account of its want of susceptibility to new methods. If a thorough overhauling of the manner in which the accounts are kept, and the monies expended should take place, new life and better financiering would undoubtedly follow...
...Fifteen years ago Prof. Hill came to Harvard. From that time he has been working to carry out his plan of more thorough instruction in English. Meeting opposition on every side, in the preparatory schools, as well as among the students and in the faculty, he kept on. In spite of apathy or difference of opinion among his associates he still worked for his department. Everywhere he went he met the statement, 'I write well enough, and I was never taught English.' This hostility, or at best indifference, had to be overcome. Finally he drew to himself the young...
Sixth Goal. - Tipped in by Gardner from behind and swiped thorough by Harding. Time, 7 minutes...