Word: dies
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...easily foresee the day when they will be able to swing their clubs on a University course. A happy day, indeed, but far from realization. There's many a slip, as the golfer would say, between the tee and the cup. The plan ought not to be permitted to die in its infancy from lack of consistent support. The Golf Association can be kept hale and vigorous; and a modest course fund should be started. Then, when the alumni see that the project is being carried forward in earnest, they may reasonably be relied on to step in and bring...
...club held a respected place in the University's activities, but now it has been reduced to comparatively a small group, whose efforts have been hampered by lack of numbers. The Harvard Chess Club is on its last legs. It needs to be considerably strengthened or it will die of inanition...
...three Presidents and learned of the restrictions on football which are to go into effect next year? There must have been not a few; not a few who had a feeling that something which since their first school days they had venerated as Harvard spirit had begun to die out; that the blessings with which the age that is past had surrendered Harvard to them were somewhat doubtful...
...from its material value to the man himself; that self-sacrifice for a worthy object is neither an irrational folly, nor a mere survival of a primitive herd instinct, but the noblest act of the most highly developed creature on the earth. The memory of the young men who died in the war is too fresh in our minds to let us think for a moment that their heroic deaths were due to a cold conviction of personal advantage or enlightened self interest. They did not want to die; but they went forth knowing the danger, even courting it, from...
...late hour comes an appeal from an unexpected friend of the family; she usually wants a nice quiet room near the Campus, not a boarding house; nor too expensive, where she can get her meals comfortably. The Juniors and the rest depart, "the tumult and the shouting die", the Senior is left alone in his glory and he dare not forget...