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Word: wonderful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...strongest and most proficient elevens. There are the 50 points scored against Cornell, 36 against Harvard, 36 against Princeton, and 33 against Rutgers, perhaps the best defensive team in the East. Considering these scores and bearing in mind the 98 points turned in against Yale, and one may well wonder what the defensive side of the game is coming--or has come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUNDAMENTAL FOOTBALL BACK OF CRIMSON'S SUPERIORITY. | 9/22/1916 | See Source »

...number. It is rather good fun to see a small thread of history developed into as entertaining a romance as this is. The section of Richelieu's own record which is within this story has expressed the spirit of the Duke as we imagine him so well, that we wonder whether or not Zobel is not also a disciple of "Nil Mirari...

Author: By F. E. P. jr., | Title: Prose Standard High in Advocate | 6/9/1916 | See Source »

...many hours devoted to drill in the midst of busy weeks in winter and spring. From the day of their enlistment to their final review this morning the men have worked conscientiously to serve not themselves but their country. Has Harvard's tradition of restraint, which makes other colleges wonder sometimes at what they call a Harvard indifference, not only curbed but also broken the university's spirit? The regiment silenced such questions. Its manly bearing met the test of Major-General Leonard Wood's searching eye; the men's vigorous step and resolute faces gave weakness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGIMENT LAUDED IN EDITORIAL | 6/1/1916 | See Source »

...anticipation of next fall's football season, enthusiasts begin to wonder what team will capture next year's Intercollegiate Championship. Interest naturally turns to Cornell, to whom the honors fell last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VETERAN NUCLEUS FOR CORNELL | 5/25/1916 | See Source »

...courses taken by one student is so great that the time left for reading, leaving out of consideration the quality of the theses produced, is small. Especially does the ambitious student, the student who desires to do well what he does, feel the hardship. He is likely to wonder why it is so much more important for him to write hasty articles for professors to read, than himself to read the books which professors have written. With a natural modesty he feels that the emphasis ought to be reversed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THESIS OCTOPUS. | 5/11/1916 | See Source »

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