Word: performance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...game replete with thrills and sudden surprises, Yale again proved its ability to perform the impossible and vanquished the Tigers at their own game by the decisive score of 13 to 7. The Eli team showed the effects of its recent reformation and seemed imbued with a spirit of determined fight that would not be denied, and the first few times the Yale backs tore through the Tiger line were moments of great surprise to the Princeton rooters. But the biggest surprise of all came in Guernsey's out-punting of Driggs. Before the game Yale could boast...
...authority on modern warfare. These suggestions appear disordered, but out of them may come some feasible plan of action. It is undoubtedly true that war as it is played today requires specialists in all departments, and in the training of such men the University has a responsible task to perform...
...section of Alsace which France has recovered from Germany, the American Ambulance field service has now the only automobile ambulances, and they are performing a service which no other automobile ambulances could perform. Because of the lightness and power of our little cars and because we are willing to use them up in this service and replace them without restrictions, our ambulances are running over steep mountain passes in Alsace, which the French motor ambulances are unable to cross and over which wounded soldiers were formerly carried in hard-rimmed, springless wagons or on mule back...
...applause of the populace, and more than that the congratulations of his particular friends. With no one to cheer him on, no one to care whether he won or lost, there would have been nothing to force him to his utmost. So it is today. Everyone can perform heroic deeds if only someone to whom he wishes to be a here is looking...
...unusual ability, all candidates for the Mandolin and Banjo Clubs will be required to play two instruments, according to the rule established last year. The Glee Club will hold trials not only for singers, but also for accompanist and for "funny man," men with ability to perform a humorous stunt being particularly desired. Besides the new men, all members of the Clubs last year are expected to report to the leaders at the time of the trials...