Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marked dissatisfaction on the part of the Harvard coaching staff not only with the showing of the rush line but also with that of the backfield was plainly indicated by the various lineup shifts in yesterday afternoon's without on Soldiers Field...
...attempt to bolster up his backfield, the first-year mentor transferred I. B. Hardy Jr., 200-pound tackle, to fullback on team A. Hardy has been a regular tackle on the 1933 eleven, but the proven strength of the Freshman rush line shows that there is plenty of material for the forward wall...
Ensued a squabble royal while the library stood inscriptionless. Wrathful Monsignor Ladeuze caused to be clandestinely prepared a second set of balustrade stones spelling: In Bella Reducta; In Pace Resti-tuta ("Destroyed In War; Restored In Peace"). The secret leaked out. Mr. Warren hired roustabouts and huskies to rush his stones into place. Rector Ladeuze stopped them with a court injunction and the entire police force of Louvain, then hired other huskies to put up his stones. No sooner were they in place than a band of his own students appeared shouting "Vive Warren! Vive Mercier!", climbed to the roof...
...representatives had not forgotten, but there was undoubtedly a majority ready to rush through the amendment or anything else, if Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu should crack the whip. At last he issued from the Cabinet huddle, proposed a most unfamiliar name: "Constantin Saratzeanu...
...anomalous thing to say that the true scholar is out of place in our institutions of higher learning, but such is very frequently the case. Ever since the word went out that a college diploma was the only possible pass-key to wealth, wisdom, and social success, the rush of students coming to college for irrelevant reasons has threatened to swamp the true scholar. In 1895, the enrollment in American colleges was 45,000. At present it is well over 500,000. Some of the new arrivals came to snatch the technical training which would enable them to get good...