Word: faces
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...itinerant vendors of patent remedies. What we need is men who will make a scientific diagnosis of the disease from which the public suffers. We want to have men who will think out the questions which we shall encounter,--who will think them out scientifically and earnestly,--who will face them fearlessly, because, remember this, the men who have rarely stood in the forefront of the advance of civilization have not usually found themselves shouting with the largest crowd. We require, above all, courage, and the courage we require is not only the courage of action; it is the courage...
...appropriate that in these last days of the college year when many men are about to face the world. Carlyle should come before us, in the pages of the Harvard Monthly, and speak out his clarion doctrines and words of hope. Mr. C. B. Harris in an admirable essay "Carlyle, The Maker of Men" takes the occasion of Carlyle's address to the University of Edinburgh to review the message of that sage. "In books lies the soul of the whole past time," "Universal history is at bottom the history of the Great Men who have worked here." "Silence...
...only adverse criticism to be offered is in view of the absence of any demonstration of support in the way of cheering in the face of well organized cheering by the visiting colleges. Our own field and with the team overcoming all adds, the absence of Harvard spirit was noticeable...
...association football team over Yale at New Haven on April 12 is especially gratifying considering the difficulties with which the team has had to contend. Captain Barron and the team are to be congratulated heartily upon their splendid work. From a nucleus of only six veterans, and in the face of the most discouraging weather conditions, there has developed a team which so far has not lost a scheduled game. Lynn, Haverford, Cornell and Yale have been disposed of; and the prospects are good for the two important games yet to be played, those against Pennsylvania and Columbia...
...General Castillo is a walking menace to law and order, and his chief, the redoubtable Ohdearno, lends dignity and solidity to the desperate undertaking. And then there is Anita, incarnation of sinuous wickedness and unscrupulous grace -- alluring, exotic, venomous. You can imagine what trouble she makes. Even in the face of death and its dread alternative, matrimony, our friends find heart for song and dancing, yet the story bravely progresses towards its climax, with real sparks crackling from the wireless machine. All the characters turn up, and even the red-headed office-boy performs heroic deeds. The real thriller...