Word: sixteen
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...time all of the best football players were at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, with Pennsylvania looming large in the offing. Under such circumstances it was possible for a single observer to study all of the material in action against one another. But these favorable conditions have been gone these sixteen years and more. Today there are 300 college and university football teams in the United States presenting a field of material in excess of 10,000 men. Manifestly, it is impossible for a single observer to see more than 28 of these elevens in action and these cannot...
...last opportunity for joining the Harvard Opera Association will be next Monday, November 18. Freshmen especially are urged to sign the blue-books as only sixteen men of the class have joined...
Today, for the first time in sixteen years, a Princeton team comes to face a Harvard team at Cambridge. That the visitors will prove redoubtable adversaries is certain. Princeton has shown a remarkable development this year and, up to date, has scored far more points on her opponents than Harvard. But, apart from the uncertain test of comparative scores there appears little to choose between the two teams. In fact, the most noticeable feature in a comparison between them is the close similarity of their merits and defects. Both backfields have displayed the same consistent, and at times spectacular, ability...
With the football game with Princeton but a few days distant, it is small wonder that all of us are in an unusual state of enthusiasm and excitement. Sixteen years have passed since a football team representing Princeton has played on our field, and so the game this week arouses an extraordinary amount of interest. Tonight an opportunity is afforded to show this interest and enthusiasm, the occasion being the first mass meeting of the year. Certainly there is no lack of enthusiastic support for the team or of confidence in its ability to win in this game...
...good beginning makes a good ending," is universally applicable. Especially is it true when applied to the way in which the men in College, and the Freshmen in particular, go at their work during the first of the year. To the men of the entering class of nineteen sixteen it may be well to say that the November hour examinations, seemingly so far distant, are in reality but a short time away, and that, in coping with these initial examinations, a solid grounding in one's courses is more than necessary. The man who makes sure of his work...