Word: fought
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...islanders should have swung away from their continental neighbors in this matter, but it is strange that they should have adhered to their perverse pronunciation in spite of all the efforts of various intelligent persons to adopt in some manner the continental system. Milton, like a sturdy Puritan, fought vigorously against it, and Walter Scott opposed it, though his more gentle disposition made him finally yield to the custom of Court and College...
...told the Florentines that it was possible to be a philosopher under any stars; Montaigne proved that it was so in his remote Gascon turret. It is curious that Montaigne's Essays is the only speculative book which Shakespeare can be proved to have read. Dante in one sense fought a losing battle, for his life-long endeavor was to keep the thread of tradition unbroken, to reform through the past and not in spite of it. We Americans are apt to undervalue tradition, and for this very reason I think a study of the motives and principles of such...
...Apsey cited the civil war as an example of his meaning. Into this war men entered, banding themselves into different armies. They did not always agree with their leaders as to methods and means, but believing in the main principle they fought with their whole soul, and there came out from the struggle great and noble men and a new nation. So it is with parties. Out from the struggle between them emerge the grandest national characters and the greatest national reforms...
...interested in nothing but society, are glad to give up part of this for science and literature and art. Not many years ago the young woman who went into "higher education" was inseparably associated, at least in the minds of young men, with bowed spectacles and philosophy and was fought shy of as being "intellectual" and so uninteresting. Today a young woman may be as intellectual as she likes and still be decidedly interesting. Thus the Annex has offered the best and has interested in the best a class which has contented itself heretofore with mere uninterested dabbling. This...
Harvard's work in the first half was very satisfactory even to the most critical observer. She fought against odds with a splendid show of grit and determination and, if anything, outplayed Yale both in defensive and offensive work. It was a magnificent struggle and the fact that such strength can be showed should be incentive enough to the eleven to put a winning team into the field next Thursday. In the second half, however, Yale clearly outclassed Harvard in every respect. Harvard's great fault then, as before, was too deliberate playing. She was far too cautious considering...