Word: ever
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Very few of us ever stop to think how much we owe to that courageous young minister, who, in 1638, left his library and half his estate to the struggling college at Newtowne. In gratitude the General Court changed the town's name to Cambridge, the university which John Harvard left in order to come to this country. Without his aid it would never have attained its early reputation--it might even have been abandoned. And, in partial recognition of our enormous debt to him, the least that we can do is to attend the exercises this morning...
...highest score ever made by a team at one of these shoots is held by Princeton with 451, which they made at New Haven last spring. Yale held the record before this with 442, which they made...
...defence, however, he was every-where, in fact so good at one stage that Haughton said in his caustic criticism after the game, that Legore executed the finest defensive play he had ever witnessed...
...student with classes to attend, lessons to prepare, letters home and otherwise to write, a thousand and one outside activities to attend to, and the necessary and desired amount of recreation to get in, when he so invariably exclaims, "No time for reading!" But just a moment: Did it ever occur to you that after all in this very busy life of ours we do somehow manage to squeeze in the things we want most? No dodging...
Over the causeways of history there stalks a giant figure--ever young, alert and bright-eyed. He is the Pioneer who has made history mean progress instead of a chronicle. Empires have been built, because he swept out over far seas, while statesmen stayed at home. Inventions and new ideas have been inaugurated, because the Pioneer dared and struggled against odds...