Word: fears
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Stone '07 compared the prospects of Harvard and Yale for the dual meet and expressed his fear that the University team would be over-confident, a great danger to any team. The meet can be won only by good, persistent training, consistent work, and a grim resolve...
...scholarships. Statistics of Harvard athletes and scholarship men give evidence of the inferior physical development of the latter class. The deficiency on the part of the scholars in our colleges is worthy of grave consideration. If scholarship men cannot be induced to take time to improve their physique, for fear of lowering their college standing, then make physical training a part of the curriculum and give them credit for their standing in their physical work...
...best thing about the human will is its power of triumphing over obstacles and difficulties that are constantly increasing. To the crowd it seems that things must ever remain as they are; it is the part of the leader to see things as they ought to be. The fear of change makes the ordinary man draw back-the fear of being thought eccentric, or of being thrust into obscurity by the crowd. It is the Christian watchword that responsibility rests on the individual. Wills have been given us-let us use them. Fate, heredity, chance,-these do not affect...
...best motive has two or three characteristics that distinguish it from base ones: it does not fear the light and does not have to apologize for itself; it is permanent, lasting through all changes of age or condition of life; and it is elastic, allowing of expansion of interests...
...Corporation has definitely announced that they will not allow the high bleacher which has usually been erected at the open end of the Stadium, to be built this year. The main reason which influenced the Corporation to take this step was the fear of accident. The danger of tire with the wooden bleachers was considered to be too great...