Word: helpless
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...great game, nor can any number of "ifs" soften the sting of defeat. Victory went to the better team, and the Yale eleven earned all the credit that it is receiving by playing a hard, clean game and doing it better than its opponents. The University team was helpless against a style of play which it was not prepared to meet on even terms, and for which it had no correspondingly effective attack...
...plays criticise the present social order and some of the socialists of today. Among the former is one that speaks of war as a science of attacking a weaker opponent and getting out of the way of a stronger. In "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" he shows that an apparently helpless and unskilled woman is stronger in an emergency than the power of the sword. "Mrs. Warren's Profession," though known as "immorality dramatized," is really an enquiry into the self-complacency of modern society. "Candida" is a criticism of a modern socialist clergyman who is a good preacher, a good...
...matter how sound may be the basis of the Council as regards constitutionality, it will fail to be effective unless it is thoroughly representative of all the undergraduates. The constitution has provided for this admirably, but even the constitution is helpless in bringing it about unless the men turn out to vote. No written document can elect the right men to serve on a board of this or any other kind--it is a matter for every man in the University to take a hand in and see to it that those men are elected to whom they would most...
...series last Saturday evening by defeating Columbia at the St. Nicholas Rink, by the score of 14 to 1. Columbia was outclassed from the start and was far surpassed both in speed and in knowledge of the game. After the first few minutes of play the team was almost helpless before the attack of the University forwards. Had it not been for the good work of Murphy, Columbia's goal, the score would have been even larger. The work of the University team was particularly good for the first game of the season, as the team play was excellent...
...taken forty years of unceasing fighting, of patient waiting, of striving to mould public opinion, without which we cannot get anywhere, or, if we do, find ourselves stuck, side-tracked and helpless before we know it. It is going to take us twenty years more to get where we cannot slide back. Every winter the forces of selfish greed that care nothing for the neighbor, nothing for the state, and in their utter short-sightedness and folly cannot grasp the meaning of the President's constant warning that "we go up or down together," can see only their own immediate...