Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...breaking of a collar bone; and you left your opponents life enough to finish the game and limbs enough to get back to Cambridge. For this old John Harvard thanks you from the bottom of his grateful heart. But you have something more to do; a harder battle to fight, a nobler victory to win, and I would say to every man upon your team: Your splendid record has laid upon your sturdy shoulders another and a weightier duty. If you are to do a real and lasting service for the cause of athletics, and for your Alma Mater...
...moral development can not be doubted. In the struggle against sin it has given definiteness to the blows that they were struck against an enemy. But now the evil one is gone although the evil ones remain. In the time to come, people will do well if they fight evil with such vigor as our forefathers fought the devil...
...House."Pushing to the Front, or Success Under Difficulties," is the title of a new book published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The author, O. S. Marden, has taken for his theme the inevitability of success to any youth who has the grit and pluck to seize his opportunity and fight his way; that if he is really deserving he can neither be buried nor obscured; that the barriers are not yet erected which can say to aspiring talent, "Thus far, and no farther...
...time of Corneille's Cid man was constantly called upon to fight either for his country or honor, so that strength of character and firmness of will were as necessary to existence as life itself. Corneille put Don Rodrique face to face with fate and then left him to conquer or perish as might be. It is the wonderful consistency with which the character of the Cid is developed in relation to the other personages in the play which mark the genius of Corneille...
...orators of his time in a speech delivered the same year in Faneuil Hall, at a meeting called to express indignation at the killing of Loverjoy. From that time on he was the champion of the anti-slavery movement, using his unequalled powers of oratory in its cause. The fight was over when Lincoln called for volunteers, and the abolitionists came into popular favor...