Word: acts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Experience in the past, in '61, as any veteran will bear witness, has shown that those who act with a definite and carefully considered purpose, and not on the impulse of a moment, prove the most useful recruits. And what, in this instance, should be the purpose in the mind of the undergraduate? The senible course is to consider the crisis coolly with the aim of deciding in what way he can serve his country best. If he thinks that the path of his duty lies in immediate enlistment, then no one can criticise him in his choice...
...mental resource, and to exercise all the manly qualities which are demanded in the athlete, these are surely worth while in themselves independent of victory or defeat. Harvard has had many captains who have done these things, but few who have done them as disinterestedly as Goodrich. His final act of self effacement, however necessary it may have seemed to him and to the coaches, can but add to the respect which is felt for him. An undergraduate seldom has a harder thing to do. Resignation before success, setting aside the chance so cagerly looked forward to, of making...
...following men will act as class team captains in both the 'varsity and class games: A. B. Emmons, 2nd, for '98; J. T. Roche, Jr., for '99; A. N. Rice, for 1900; J. W. Hallowell...
...committee, consisting of Messrs. Cheever, Williams and Higginson, was appointed to act with a committee of the Corporation in regard to an endowment of the Veterinary School. The next meeting will be on April...
...ballets were all pretty, and the first one is especially funny. The exits, however, were somewhat ragged. G. B. Hanavan 2L. was particularly graceful and sure in a "pas seul" at the end of the second act...