Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...race, who, veterans from the first, inspired a new sprit into the army, and gave their lives for an ideal. I saw in your library photographs of your comrades who fell in the war. Our Italian universities have similar exhibitions. These young men who gave their youth for a faith, are the foundation of the future civilization, and a greater...
...shown the indomitable faith of Rolland in life, fighting alone and unaided by influential friends, the struggle for a fair hearing. He has shown in his Rolland "the true hero who does not fight for the petty achievements of life, for success, for an idea in which all can participate; he fights for the whole of life, for life itself." His is "the true heroism which faces realities", and which in the face of disappointment and disaster can yet leave one mellowed and unembittered...
Coach Knox, among many other writers on football, has pointed out the absurdity of comparing scores as a means of predicting the outcome of a game. But there seems to be still a number of people who put a good deal of faith in them. At least, they put enough faith in them to offer the tremendous odds of 5 to 4 in favor of Yale. Certainly no Harvard man puts any faith in such comparison, but it will do no harm to look at some of the facts behind the numerical scores...
Dean Brown compared life to a battle in the World War. In the battle the private soldier knew little of the progress of the fight, but his faith in headquarters kept up his morale. "In the battle of life," said Dean Brown, "each of us is like the soldier; we cannot tell how the campaign against evil is going, but we have faith in headquarters which enables us to keep up our morale...
...goes without saying that none of us are in danger of becoming confirmed football pessimists on account of Saturday's game, or that our faith in the team is shaken. We know they did their "darndest", as we in the stands did outs to back them. But the best part of it all is that Yale--the rival, supreme--is yet to be played. Here is a chance, if ever chance was, to come back-team and support together --and crash through with a punch that will make former Yale Game look like dummy practice...