Word: blusterous
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...cultivation of these qualities makes a man capable of giving a judgment that is entitled to weight, it brings out the best qualities of his individuality, it teaches him to avoid bluster and gives him the gentleness that springs, not from feebleness, but from vigor, and it inspires him to do what he ought under all conditions. If the new men were to escape the selfishness into which college men so easily fall, they would best do it by co-operating with the old men in work for these old ideals...
NATURALLY enough, we think, the [Cornell] challenges were not accepted. The papers of Harvard and Yale treated the affair in a perfectly cool and proper way, but the Cornell Era seized the opportunity of indulging in some of that ungentlemanly bluster of which it is so fond. We do not doubt that the challenged universities acted without any mean or unworthy motives. - Acta Columbiana...
...ball game. The following remarks are from one of the editorials: "But we suspect that the Harvard players, on returning to Cambridge, were most cordially reprehended, and that, to cover up the defeat if possible, it was at once resolved to bring into requisition the regulation Harvard tactics of bluster and complaint. . . . . We have the word of four of the most prominent of Harvard's players, that they had not even read over the Rugby Union rules under which the game was conducted. It was patent to any unbiassed spectator that Harvard was governed in the main by custom...