Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That the foundation of the Harvard University Press is to exert an influence of the highest order in the field of learning and will be a strong factor in the advance of scholarship is recognized generally by the public press. We are quoting below an editorial from the Springfield Republican which illustrates very forcibly the attitude of the outside press toward the importance of the new University foundation. The editorial, printed in full, follows...
...over-confidence. The confidence that Harvard men feel is not that which turns to panic at the first hint of reverse, but the real confidence that maintains itself at the same even strength through good and ill--confidence in the quality of our team and in its determination to exert itself to the utmost in its last great contest of the season...
...main it is doing a splendid and much-needed work. It is not merely an organization of prominent debaters and speakers in the College, but one whose membership, although necessarily limited in number by natural conditions, is designed to be representative of all phases of University activities, to exert a democratic influence, and to serve the University by offering opportunities for men to develop the faculty of extemporaneous and prepared speaking. These ideals the Club realizes by bringing before the University speakers of prominence and marked personality, and by regular and frequent meetings open to all members of the University...
...players. To beat McGill at its own sport is especially gratifying after the two defeats of past years. The CRIMSON congratulates the seven on its well-earned victory and looks forward eagerly to the seventeenth, when Yale comes to the Arena. Defeated by Princeton, the New Haven team will exert its utmost to win from Harvard, but it is doubtful if Yale can develop an attack equal to that of McGill...
...health of the body. For example, in the modern high pressure of life, the pressure of life, the great percentage of physical sickness is due to nervous troubles which have their source in the mind. It is in these mental disorders, that the doctor has opportunity to exert his Christianizing influence. Like St. Paul, he must uphold his faith in spite of criticism in order to contribute the best that is in his life...