Word: grit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Certainly cross-country running is a sufficiently important branch of track to be made a "legitimate" field in which to win one's letter. It is not a trivial sport. With the possible exception of rowing, there is no exercise which makes such a demand upon the grit and stamina of the athlete, and which leaves him in such an exhausted condition. Moreover, the distance runners in the spring are often the cross-country runners of the preceding fall. At Yale the letter is awarded to those runners who finish within twelfth place in the intercollegiate run, whether Yale wins...
...result of brilliant individual work unaided by interference, and occasional spontaneous developments of team play from the exigencies of a desperate situation. In defense, on the contrary, the Harvard team played till the whistle blew for the last time a truly heroic game, a game in which by sheer grit and pluck in the face of insuperable seconds eleven men time and again stayed off a finally inevitable defeat at the hands of one of the best teams which ever played for Yale...
...this is the House of Fellowship Binding with bonds that ne'er shall slip. Union of work - to fight to the end; Union of heart - to strive for one's friend; Union of strength - to renounce without sigh; Union of grit - to fall without cry; Union of wisdom - to read with mind free; Union of love - to give with glee; Union of head - to make life more plain; Union of hope - to win without stain. These are the ties this House shall breed; This is its rock-foundation creed. Symbol of Harvard Loyalty, House of Good Fellowship - Welcome to thee...