Word: booning
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...addition of a swimming pool to Harvard's athletic equipment would not only serve as a boon to swimming at Cambridge, but would furnish a source of recreation and amusement to many undergraduates now deprived of the privilege of swimming during the college year. It is doubted whether a more essential type of athletic equipment is lacking at Cambridge...
...seems to me that the greatest boon the war has already given to us in America is a realization that our men must all be physically fit. I cannot look back at the record made at Harvard and at Yale, with both of which institutions I am familiar, being a graduate of one and officially connected with the other, without feeling that for 25 years our athletic training has been on the wrong track. But I am glad to say that we are seeing the light and that we are coming around...
...could at a time when official opportunities for military instruction were at a minimum, the regiment at Cambridge early became a rallying point for the spirit of national service in colleges throughout the East. Improving in discipline and in effectiveness, it received during the following year, as a merited boon, the able corps of French officers who came to supplement and reinform the instruction already being provided by competent American officers. So prepared, many of its members were gladly received at the first regular Plattsburg officers' training camps opened this spring. Others in great number, with recruits from the other...
...tradition and power which great men have built and left, stand half abashed before their own arrogance and their own indifference to the past, remembering that all they enjoy of liberty and power has been earned by the blood of those who held liberty and power above the poor boon of existence. We cannot be untrue to those who have given so much. We cannot leave a lesser inheritance to the future than we have received from the past...
...does small real harm to college men. It wastes time, both in the imbibing and the recounting. It wastes money, but a college man would do that anyway. On the other hand, it puts the climax to a full evening, and affords the means of a certain amount of boon cordiality. The harm which the drinking of the college man does is not personal, but by example. There is a proportion of our citizens by no means small who, while vociferously disparaging the college man, yet copy after a fashion his method of dressing, his method of talking...