Word: grave
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...employ both arms in that game you will be in danger of stooping; in danger of losing your soul. But in spite of every thing you may succeed, you may be successful, you may acquire enormous wealth. In which case I warn you that you stand in grave danger of being spoken and written of and pointed out as a smart man. And that is one of the most terrible calamities that can overtake a sane, civilized white man in our empire today...
...onside kick and forward pass, however, the first two changes would be useless, for the only open play then available would be the long kick or quarterback kick. As originator of the onside kick rule I may possibly be prejudiced; but it seems that it would be a grave mistake to go back to the rule allowing the back field men to let a ball bounce around on the ground and come to rest before they need to touch it. Moreover, it gives the line men something to do besides tackling and opening holes, and has a strong moral effect...
...pointed out, physical improvement has been made by all classes of college men except those holding scholarships. Statistics of Harvard athletes and scholarship men give evidence of the inferior physical development of the latter class. The deficiency on the part of the scholars in our colleges is worthy of grave consideration. If scholarship men cannot be induced to take time to improve their physique, for fear of lowering their college standing, then make physical training a part of the curriculum and give them credit for their standing in their physical work...
...only the mistaken dream of impracticable visionaries, it is entitled to the credit of a gentle birth. It is one of the phenomena of the groping fraternalism that has so markedly characterized the civilization of the last half century. This question cannot be arbitrarily dismissed. It is far too grave to be left for solution to the partisan. He has only one policy to consider-how to get votes. Neither the morals, the economics or the common sense of any proposition interest him except in so far as they may be employed to secure his selfish ends. To the Radical...
...grave, high brow with radiance sublime...