Word: certain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...colleges are co-operating in an effort to enforce the one-year rule in college athletics in the state. Steps were taken at a meeting of the Pennsylvania College Presidents' Association to prohibit helping star athletes from preparatory schools by offering them social or financial inducements to enter a certain college to play on athletic teams. It was decided to enforce strictly the rule which prohibits freshmen from having membership on university teams. The colleges represented in this campaign for cleaner athletic methods are Muhlenburg, Gettysburg, Haverford; University of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania State College...
...much to the actual playing of the game as to the various outgrowing details, psychology, judgment of men, strategy, and the like. Every coach, even Haughton, will make a mistake or two each season. Rush's great mistake this year was in placing too much faith in certain individuals, in believing that men would come through in the big tests, despite their failure in preliminary tests. It is not likely that a man who fumbles consistently in the preliminary season will ever again be entrusted with big-game responsibility by Rush, no matter how great he may be in other...
Among the pieces of advice gratuitously showered on the undergraduate none is more often repeated than that which urges him to select certain courses, regardless of their intrinsic value in his scheme of education, for the sake of listening to some particularly famous member of the Harvard Faculty. If he does so, and does not take the trouble to gain a personal acquaintance with his professor he is failing in half his avowed purpose. Relations of this sort often prove of more value than the actual work of the courses, and by being continued in after life may become...
...these being Hadley, who played at Tufts for three years, and Snow, the former Dartmouth captain. G. S. Williams ocC, who played on the second University team this fall, will be at left tackle. The Battery A line-up has not yet been definitely decided upon, but it is certain that several former University players and possibly some present members of the University will play on that team...
...leader, is unrepresented this year, and Boston Latin, this year's leader, was in ninth place the year before, Exeter, Country Day School, Groton and St. Paul's School have shown a tendency to hold their respective places. Although one year's high rank may not be a certain measure of a school's efficiency, continued presence in the honor list must mean superior methods of teaching. Hence, although the winning school each year deserves the medal awarded to it, still more justice would be obtained by awarding two or three prizes for the highest score over a period...