Word: star
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...baseball players of today a more finished article than the famous old star players of yesterday? Anson, Ferguson, Stovey, Rowe, White, Brouthers, Thompson, and Sunday were once the idols of the fans, yet the player on the big teams of today can show even cleaner fielding averages. Why? you ask. Just compare the 1908 scores with those of even ten years ago. Games are won on closer margins, fewer hits and less errors. Better fielding tells the story...
...story of India, "In the Name of the Empire," which suggests Kipling in subject, but without the terse directness of Kipling's style. In "The Army of Unalterable Law" Mr. Pulsifer tries to show a larger principle in the universe; somewhat of the same nature is Mr. Follett's "Star-Wondering" in which he sets the stars to pondering the old question which the first thinking man proposed to himself, the question which played so large a part in the schemes of the early Greek physical philosophers--"What is this world about us?" Like Odysseus, Mr. Blythe communes with...
...accurate. The superiority in the line, however, was offset by a weak defence, due to the fact that this was the first game in which it had been severely tried. Princeton's defence was very strong, continually turning aside shots that ordinarily would have counted. Hicks was the star of the game, and with Morgan excelled for Harvard, while Peacock and Read did the best work for Princeton...
...part of man to seek the light, Even though it come from his own falling star...
Throughout the game the superiority of the University team was very apparent. The attack was spirited and dashing and the defense was strong and active. Furber was the Star of the game, scoring five of Harvard's ten goals. Captain Vance played his usual steady game. Goepper played an effective game in goal, and spoiled all Columbia's attempts to score...