Word: combativeness
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...Captain Fisher has said, is a fighter; but if, at the outset of an important game, any player makes a mistake and the opposing team seems to "get the jump" for a moment, the student body seems to lose heart and to desert the team. Thereafter, the players must combat not only the strength of their adversaries, but the discouraging pessimism of the whole Harvard stands...
...speculation still continues after years of effort against it. If football continues to grow in popularity as it has in the past, and it seems likely to do so, the demand for tickets will be greater each year, and the abuse of ticket preferences will naturally increase. To combat this danger the publication of the black-list is the only sure means, and we believe that it is justifiable and advisable...
...team that will mee Princeton in verbal combat this evening we extend our best wishes. Of recent years Princeton has assumed a position of practical leadership in the debating world--a position which for many years had been Harvard's undisputed right. We look forward to a renewal of the old prestige in this truly academic intercollegiate contest...
...sharp party lines: the administrative, who are for Taft, and the reactionary allies who are for no particular candidate but for the defeat of Taft. In New England the reactionaries are endeavoring to defeat Taft by having the delegates go to Chicago uninstructed, and the only way to combat them is for the people to vote at the caucuses, which are to be held on March 31, for the delegates pledged to vote for Taft. In closing, he said that if the reactionary allies succeed in defeating Taft, Hughes, or possibly a Democrat, Bryan, would be nominated...
...office, no sanctum, nor any visible means of support, and there were only nine editors, including the business editors. Although there were too many publications at the time we started, we decided that the character of the Advocate had become a little two academic, and we wanted to combat...