Word: winning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Passadena offers a royal welcome to her visitors. The evenings before the great game are filled with merriment and sport for the eastern guests. On the evening after the game a ball is held in the Maryland Hotel. Win or lose, no team ever comes away from Pasadena disappointed, for the western spirit of hospitality pervades the atmosphere and the qualities of real sportsmanship are recognized on every hand...
...examination of the names of men of achievement appearing in "Who's Who" shows that only one uneducated child in one hundred and fifty thousand is able to accomplish anything that entitles him to honorable mention in the progress of his state; that children with common-school education win out four times as often; that a high school diploma gives them eighty-seven times as much chance--while a college education makes them eight hundred times as likely to succeed. But the fact that such incidents as the above do still happen should be sufficient to make us more guarded...
...Unquestionably the dormitory is the best solution of the college housing problem but it must win its way gradually into the approval of the student body. Build your dormitories so attractive that men can ill afford to live elsewhere and you need worry no longer as to the necessity for compulsion. As your Freshmen would rather live in the dormitories than outside of them so would your upperclassmen find their dormitories so rich in opportunity that they would not risk losing what they might thus gain...
...Andover game on November 1, the Freshmen again were forced to the limit to win a 14-9 victory. The yearlings made their winning touchdown in the last three minutes of play after a 30-yard pass from Owen to H. L. Hartley. By their consistent gaining ability, Churchill, Owen and Buell again came to the fore...
Further assurance that the team backed up Coach Fisher to a man was given by the words of Captain W. J. Murray. "There isn't a man on the team who will not give up all personal ambition to win that game, and who does not trust Coach Fisher to the limit...