Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chafing at enforced inactivity, critical of the government, dissatisfied with the army, and in particular with its age limit of twenty years and nine months and in no way trying to conceal our misery, the few who still seem happy assume heroic proportions. We ask the secret of their cheer, and the invariable answer is their sense of humor. Just what is sense of humor? The dictionary tells us that it is "the ability to perceive the comic." But the lexicographer knew nothing of the subject. If he had, he probable wouldn't have been a lexicographer. True sense...
...squad of forty or fifty men to come dashing on the field from the locker building, led by a Brickley or a Mahan. No staff of coaches and managers followed. A bare squad of twenty-two men, with one coach and one manager, was all there was no cheer from the Harvard stands met it, for there was no Harvard stand. The red jerseys and stockings were all that distinguished it to the ordinary observer...
...test of a man's greatness is not in the crowds which cheer him while he lives; nor in that newspaper prominence whereby the famous are alternately lauded and reviled. The test of his greatness is in the feeling of irreparable loss which comes over those whom he has served during life...
...believed, however, that the young men of this nation are not yet of such timid heart that the remoteness of the call to service may cheer them. If they are, if those ten million men will regard the twentieth part chosen as unfortunate, and the twentieth part will lament the injustice of a fate that calls them to the road of courage, then five hundred thousand drafted men were worth less than the English first army, volunteers for which almost fought for the opportunity to fight...
Sections 30 and 31 have been reserved for the spectators desiring to cheer the Team. Students with season tickets should enter at the open end of the Stadium; all those fortunate enough to have seats will use the other end. The box office closed at an early hour last night, but some tickets may still be procured from speculators at moderate prices...