Word: gained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...even when greatly incensed they were always subservient to their officers, although eatables were always appropriated, for the military fare was by no means savory. As a rule, the American volunteer was not impulsive; and, from his stoical and quiet demeanor, under favorable or adverse circumstances, he has gained the name from some critics of being apathetic. This is not so. The menwere fighting for the Union and not for any glory or financial gain, and they gave their lives simply and quietly, to keep the Union whole. A pure patriotism inspired them, and with grave faces they looked...
...moving from one bag to another. In all the champion nines of last year, the men were conspicuous for their swift base running. More, the men were carefully coached while on bases, from the time they reached first until they had crossed the home plate again. No chance to gain a point was allowed to escape the notice of the vigilant coaches watching at either side of the field. Our nine seems to have need of much greater attention to this part of their preparation. When batting is their weak point it is especially important that every man who reaches...
...their college course. Had this hope been realized, and enough students joined the league to make it popular, and to make a refusal to drink less odd than an invitation, great good would have accrued to our college. There can be no doubt that it would be a great gain to the students as a body to give up entirely during the college course, the use of every sort of liquor. In the four years which a man spends in college he is far more likely to fall into fatal habits of excess than in any other period...
...Haven, stands up for athletics when he says that the men who know how to do things in their business and professions, and who do them in practical confidence are generally men who in early lift learned how to work with their hands. There is certain intellectual gain in acquiring the dexterous or steady...
mand of any set of muscles. The agility and firmness, for instance, to be gained in boxing is not wholly a physical gain; it has, also, some reactions upon the habits of an intellectual man, which are not to be despised. There are also indirect moral reactions of college athletics which are thoroughly healthful. Physical training and physical excesses do not go together. The disappearance of the worst forms of hazing seems to me to be in part an effect of the increased interest in athletics...