Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Good food, neither too much nor too little, eaten at regular hours, and sufficient time taken for its thorough mastication...
...blooded men to take part in athletics. 140 men responded: about 40 candidates for track, 40 for crew, and 60 for hockey. What's the matter with the other 2,362? There is room for 24 men on the rowing machines at one time. Giving each man a good twenty-minute row, 216 men could have turned out between 2 and 5 yesterday afternoon. The possibility for runners is unlimited. The weather is doing all it can for hockey. Every dormitory and hall should have its team in each one of these sports, Every man a player: That...
...nourished such image-breakers as John Hancock, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Wendell Phillips--all of whom were thought by the "best people of the time" to be turning the world upsidedown. What are we here for whether students or teachers, but to concrete what we find to be good and permanent? and on that sub structure to build new mansions for our souls? What is the use of all this insistence on a man's thinking for himself, if he is not to think something that was never thought before...
...enduring a monument of literary work in many fields. Roosevelt was the living illustration of what used rather weakly to be called "the scholar in politics". He dignified learning by showing to the whole country that a man of education, a man of letters, might nevertheless be a very good fellow, a delightful host, a crack companion in the mountains, a swift counsellor in public affairs, an administrator who went at his ends like an arrow to the quarry...
...must be met. The returning undergraduate will be more mature, more intelligent, and more whole-hearted in what he demands. It is the University's opportunity to utilize his enthusiasm, to absorb his interest so completely that the closing years of his training at Cambridge may be turned to good account...