Word: donning
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Overconfidence never yet won a victory, and it has lost more than one. Harvard men are going to point to comparative scores and decide next Saturday's game before the team reaches New Haven, unless they refuse to become over-confident. Of one thing they may be sure: Yale at...
"I would like to find the men who can't help getting a thrill out of that," he commenced, "that's the way Harvard men should always welcome their team. But because you are enthusiastic, don't be over-confident. Last year when you faced Princeton you were."
"Don't be over-confident," he reiterated time and again. "Saturday at the end of the first half we may find ourselves face to face with another disheartening uphill fight as we did last year. This is the time to yell your throats out for your team You must, too...
Don Lourie, who came to Cambridge last Saturday to watch team "B" defeat the Virginians, was again at the helm and Wittmer appeared at full for the first time in two weeks. It was announced that the latter had entirely recovered from his early season injury and would be back...
The predicament is that one immortalized by Mr. Wrinkle: the mediocre equestrian, forced to make good. Unlike Mr. Wrinkle, however, Mr. Collier proceeds to make good, after remarking, "When the race is over, you'll either look up and say 'Good boy, Sam!' or look down and say 'Don't...