Word: gallant
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...Humour is the note of the play, but humor does not exclude the gallant swagger of romance, and when the cook sallies out to fight the dragon, and . . . the right note is struck by a master hand; . . . the conversion of the Dragon to vegetarianism is a stroke of genius. Dickens at his best never contrived a better ending than Lady Gregory, or one more in keeping with the tone of the right kind of fairy story...
...students attended the meeting, while nearly 300 of the ex-service men signed cards signifying their desire to join the Shannon Post. President Lowell opened the meeting by saying that it was peculiarly appropriate that the Post should be named after Colonel Shannon, who was "one of the most gallant men we have come in contact with." He then introduced Professor W. B. Munro...
...death comes as a great blow not only to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which must bear the brunt of it, but to educational institutions everywhere. Not yet fifty, he literally gave his life in the cause for which during the last eleven years, he had made such a gallant and successful fight. The great buildings on the Cambridge bank of the Charles are his monument, the rank of Tech as the greatest scientific school in the country, his creation...
...been transferred from the old Battery A. They were not less spirited than their senior officers. A good example is Captain H. Frothingham, commander of Co. F, 104th Infantry. An old football player, he used to go into battle as if he were going into a Yale game. For gallant conduct while under fire, he was promoted to a captaincy. He would have made a success in any army, and there were many other Harvard men just like...
...himself a solution of the perennial problem of 'how to bring about a closer relation between teacher and student.' Throughout his life he had struggled heroically against the galling restrictions imposed by a physical infirmity, and achieved results which would have been impossible for a spirit less gallant. When the great war came, and it was evident that he could not go to fight he manfully stuck to his post at Harvard, devoting all his energies to maintaining the continuity of instruction, and to keeping alive the undergraduate organizations with which he was most closely identified. This was his contribution...