Word: moment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...playing Filley at end caused more talk than any other one thing this fall. It was attributed to favoritism. I know Filley. He is not the sort of man who becomes the beneficiary of unfair methods or society influence. The graduates who were coaching the ends thought from the moment he began to play that he was the most promising candidate for that position they had ever seen. They said so to friends of mine long before any of us who were on the outside knew that Filley had any chance of making the team. It was a serious mistake...
...place to be announced later. The contract for the outfits has been let to the Hayden Costume Co., of Boston, and it is essential that they know as early as possible the total number of outfits wanted, as a large supply cannot be made up at the last moment...
...story of the man born blind, in which the next appears, shows, Bishop Carpenter said, the evolution of a human soul. First comes the outside influence, the moment when we see that life is a far more transcendent thing than we have supposed...
...volume--the thirty-ninth--is an achievement for which the Monthly may be proud. But coming as it does at the beginning of a year it reduces to the minimum the suspicion of its being a merely temporary improvement and practically assures the permanence of innovations, of no inconsiderable moment, and a return to a sane view of what is due to a college man from a magazine published supposedly for his benefit. In this light the latest development of the Monthly as showing in its first number has its chief significance. Whether former editors will object to a change...
...many improvements to make on Soldiers Field. Undoubtedly if we wish to apply strict business principles to this case, the thing to do is to adopt at once the most stringent economy and thus pay the debt and make the improvements at the earliest possible moment. But the Athletic Association was organized to further sport, not as a business enterprise. We can better afford to discharge our debt and make the improvements a little more slowly than to injure any of our sports now by a too rigid economy; and there can be no doubt that the sudden withdrawal...