Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They willingly left the unachieved purpose of their lives in order that all life should not be wrenched from its purpose, and without fear they turned from these gates of learning to those of the grave...
...insuring good sportsmanship and strict amateur standing in college athletics is not through compulsion of any sort, but through the education of college public opinion. When every college man realizes that the game itself, and not its result, is the really important thing in sport, there will be no fear of professionalism or anything like it. The prevalent idea that it is a positive disgrace to lose a game is what is largely responsible for most of the present difficulty, and when it gives way to the feeling that it is worse than a disgrace to behave in a manner...
However, what the Crimson must fear most tonight is the increased power and team-play which the Yale team has developed in the last two weeks. The return of Speiden to the defense has been the greatest single factor in the improvement of the Blue sextet. Speiden is a player very nearly up to the standard of O'Hearn, who was lost to the Elis at the start of the season...
...records that the lure of the city was once considered a grave problem by the Circle of the Elders. As far as we can make out they took no action on the matter, and the danger remedied itself. Either the tunnel was deliberately stopped up by the students, for fear of encroachments of visiting Incas from the metropolis; or else in the revival of intellectual interest during the golden age it was neglected and fell into natural decay. Cordially yours. J. BLAIR DUNCAN...
...evident that the originators of this plan have no fear of the unlucky "13"; or possibly they are bent on ruining the whole world at one fell swoop. Imagine, also, trying to figure the interest at four and three-fourths percent of $19.19 for three months and three days when a month is a thirteenth of a year and twenty-eight days is not divisible by three! And think of the awful rate of the small boy whose birthday falls always on Sunday! No! No! If we decide to steal a march on Dame Nature let us be fair...