Word: learn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have shown, then, that our people are ready for their great sculptor; that the conditions of life with us are in the main there necessary to the production of a great art. We are learning to look upon the nude form in the way that Greece regarded it, viz: as the highest possible embodiment of a man's conception of and love for ideal beauty, veritably the temple of the spirit. When we learn that to have a beautiful and finely developed form requires moderation in life and subjection to the spiritual. then shall we know that the nude form...
...situation looks at present it will be a game in which fine individual work will be pitted against good team-play. The only opportunity that the Yale freshmen have had to learn to work together was yesterday, and it would be remarkable indeed if they could do more in that one day than barely to get some system into their play. Harvard, on the other hand, has had the whole of this week to practise together. Many of the 'varsity men have come out regularly and lined up opposite the freshmen to teach them points in breaking through and blocking...
...each squad. Kales and Mumford have been stroking the heavier crews and Stewart is stroke of the third crew. The positions are by no means fixed. Kales and Mumford were appointed simply because they have had a little previous experience. It is rather remarkable that the lightest men learn much more rapidly than the heavy ones...
...whole the team played fairly well together, the work of the backs being quite systematic in interference. They must learn to put their man out of the game entirely, and not to trust to a push to do it. Moreover the backs do not take all the chances for holes, several times going directly into the scrimmage when a hole was in plain sight. In defensive work the team is fairly strong in some particulars, especially in stopping push plays. But the line is woefully weak in holding on a kick,- Brewer being stopped a number of times...
...fear of disgrace sufficient reason to make any one learn the correct use of his mother tongue. To read much and intelligently is to speak well; the result cannot be helped...