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...through the left side of the line, and Frothingham took the ball to the second's 1-yard line on a centre play. Frothingham failed to gain around right end and Coach Winston punted out of danger for the second team. The first team then went half the length of the field in five plays, but lost the ball on a fumble on the second's 6-yard line, Coach Harding recovering it for the second team. Time was called with the ball in the latter's possession near the middle of the field...
...length of the essay is limited to 5,000 words (3,000 is suggested as a desirable length) and must be written on only one side of the paper. Writing must be legible (typewriting preferred) on 8x10 paper. The contest closes on March...
...second half opened with Minot in place of Rogers and Captain Fish in his position at right tackle. In three and one-half minutes the Harvard team carried the ball the entire length of the field and over the Williams goal. Minot ran the kick-off to his 30-yard line, five rushes put the ball in mid-field, an onside kick was recovered by G. G. Browne on Williams's 40-yard line, Frothingham ran twenty yards, and in three plays Minot scored. Withington tied the score by kicking the goal...
...part, be such as will furnish the knowledge immediately useful for that end. But if so, would it not be better to transfer all instruction of this kind to the professional schools, reducing the age of entrance thereto, and leaving the general studies for a college course of diminished length, or perhaps surrendering them altogether to the secondary schools? If we accept the professional object of college education, there is much to be said for a readjustment of that nature, because we all know the comparative disadvantage under which technical instruction is given in college, and we are not less...
Even persons who do not share this view of a professional aim have often urged that in order to save college education in the conditions that confront us we must reduce its length. May we not feel that the most vital measure for saving the college is not to shorten its duration, but to ensure that it shall be worth saving? Institutions are rarely murdered; they meet their end by suicide. They are not strangled by their natural environment while vigorous: they die because they have outlived their usefulness, or fail to do the work that the world wants done...