Word: stops
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...room there will always be a certain number of morally or mentally incapable men who will maintain that they have a perfect right to cheat if the proctor does not see them. The proctor is there to keep them from cheating, but if he is not quick enough to stop them they have used a legitimate right, they say. If the honor system were instituted at Harvard it would immediately change the present individual feeling against dishonesty, to an irresistible public spirit against it, as it has at Princeton and Williams and Amherst and other places where it has been...
...second half there was no scoring. After 18 minutes of play Dwyer tried a hard drive from scrimmage, but Chadwick made an excellent stop and quickly kicked out of danger. Later Seamans tried a corner kick which the high wind carried just over the goal...
...several narrow escapes form infuriated elephants and rhinos, once stopping a charging elephant only ten feet off. Buffaloes, also, were very dangerous. Lion hunting, though Colby said, is the finest sport of all, for the hunter is pitted against another trained hunter who knows much more about it than he does. Lions are crafty, and often seem cowardly, for they know that their charge is dangerous only within 40 yards. Once started, however, nothing but instant death can stop them...
...facts is disheartening, there is every reason to believe that a great movement is on foot which will remedy these terrible conditions in our great cities. If we are going to deal with the social problem in the poverty aspect, we must go beyond maintaining charity organizations. We must stop importing poverty, and we must stop creating poverty, by making it impossible for the industrial organizations of our country to continue their present methods of securing cheap employment regardless of the effect upon the employed...
...attempting a forward pass or an onside kick, while Harvard with two exceptions was unsuccessful with the open play. For Harvard Wendell showed up far ahead of any of his team-mates. In addition to being the most consistent ground-gainer and the hardest man on the field to stop, he was ever alert on the defence and backed up the line in faultless fashion. Except for his fumbling Corbett played his usual dashing game, and on tackle plays showed great ability to break through the opposing line. Leslie, who played for the first time since the Williams game...