Word: clean
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...development, He helps us to be of service to others. We are too apt to be satisfied with polite unselfishness instead of the great, robust sacrifice which marks the true man. Christ gives us this power of sacrifice and inspires us with power to live great, clean, rich lives...
While there are comparatively few men who do not wish to take a clean and decent attitude in life, there are many who choose the right, and yet think it is not necessary to draw a perfectly sharp line between good and evil. They think they may toy a little with sin without harm to themselves; indeed they often believe that every well-educated man should have some knowledge of the prurient and unclean...
...rushing prevail throughout all the Newell crews. The first is better together than the others and should develop power, but at present the whole dean hangs at the full reach. The second Newell does not hang as much as the first, but the men lack leg drive and a clean finish. The most marked fault of the third crew is its inability to keep the boat steady...
...which years cannot stale Which evokes the warm hope of "to-something-with Yale." And the later tunes they'll warmly greet - "To the Crimson, Glory," and "Up the Street." Here thoughts will cluster of comrades dead, Of some strong, leal heart, of a noble head, Of a short, clean life that stirred one's soul, Of a full, rich life that pointed the goal...
...graduate of Emanuel College, Cambridge. After referring to the strictly amateur stand taken by the Oxford and Cambridge athletes, who came to America without even a professional trainer, he expressed the hope that Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale might stand out as an example to all colleges in clean athletic sports. The words of Washington, inscribed beneath his bust in the Union, are appropriate in this: "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair...