Word: grit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Governor Roosevelt '80 spoke informally at New Haven last night on the duties of civic life, taking as his text the Yale spirit of grit and persistence as seen in the football game on Saturday. When the speech was finished, Captain McBride and each member of the team was called up before the meeting to be cheered, amid the wildest enthusiasm seen at Yale in years...
Today's game between Harvard and Yale, the first since the fall of '94, has been a contest which meant far more to each side than the ordinary contests on the gridiron. Yale has been laboring with her proverbial grit against heavy disadvantages. The sympathies of all sportsmen have been with her in her efforts to maintain the magnificent record she has made in the past, by the exercise of those qualities which even her hereditary opponents cannot but admire and honor. Harvard, on the other hand, has strained every nerve to burst the chain of defeats which have been...
...newspaper reports of the game. We agree with "Ninety-Four" to the extent of thinking that it is quite possible that such a view of defeat may be dwelt on excessively. In general we believe it the duty of the defeated side to say as little as possible, to grit their teeth and work to win next time. But a mere recognition of the fact that the team has done its best to win, if made sincerely, is certainly no more than just when the season is over. Severe coaching and outspoken criticism will undoubtedly do good when the practice...
...College House."Pushing to the Front, or Success Under Difficulties," is the title of a new book published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The author, O. S. Marden, has taken for his theme the inevitability of success to any youth who has the grit and pluck to seize his opportunity and fight his way; that if he is really deserving he can neither be buried nor obscured; that the barriers are not yet erected which can say to aspiring talent, "Thus far, and no farther...
...easy for us to figure out a victory. But newspaper calculations are not infallible and we firmly believe that one feature of the eleven's work has not been given due consideration. It is the superior team-play which has been developed. In this and in the grit and courage of our men we must find our strongest hopes for success. Every man of us should go to the field this afternoon, saying not "Can we win?" but "We must...