Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...lack of good forward material is the biggest problem which Coach Wachter has to face now. R. W. Fitts '23 is still out because of his injured leg and there are several men ineligible because of studies. Practice so far has been more for offensive rather than defensive play and no regular first or second teams have been picked...
Innovations at the Union have grown to be so frequent that most of them no longer excite comment. But to-day a test is put on "Harvard indifference" that will be hard to face, without flinching. Even the most callous must blanch at the thought--the Union is installing a system of push-buttons and bell-hops...
...Congress adopts the recommendations drafted by the Treasury officials and placed before Secretary Houston for his approval, the country will face a continuation of the annual tax bill of four billion dollars...
...welcome of Henry James should be quite of that nature. Metaphysicians are found in every condition of living, by far the larger number among the novelists of the modern school. Of these professional philosophers there are few indeed able to accept the infinite variety of life in the face of their own pet aversions and pet hobbies. Like so many of these James had his deformities. And among these were a restlessness, a seclusion from earthy contacts, and an incessant dissatisfaction, which, even in a novelist, do not go toward a warm reception...
...cannot overlook the fact that, in the Princeton game, Yale got a great deal of bad football out of her system and learned lessons which will not permit of the repetition of these errors in her final game of the season; that the individuals including substitutes who will face Harvard today are superior physical specimes, possessed of power and determination, with their backs against the wall, with everything to win and nothing to lose, and that the likelihood of a wet field is a more serious disadvantage to the team with the more highly developed offense...