Word: grit
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...drill-master he showed a tense interest in every man in his course, working with patient thoroughness and a degree of fairness that from the start won for him the esteem and love of us all. What is to be admired above all this, however, is the grit which led him, in spite of failing health, to devote himself to the service of his country...
...feels the desire to see new lands, to break away from those places which his ancestors cleared from the wilderness, then there is no doubt but that, given a due amount of Saxon intelligence and grit, he may make good in foreign countries. But unless he has that restlessness of the blood he would do well to look at the opportunities that lie before him in his own country, where his own tongue is spoken, among people, who are in sympathy with his ideas, and whose ideas he may appreciate...
...home of miraculous "come-backs." There are many indications that she has at last climbed out of the lowly rut of former defeats and under the efficient guidance of a new coaching system has found again the drive and power that were once her victorious characteristics. The grit of Yale is universally know; it is in our power on Saturday to make the Harvard fighting spirit equally famed. The same fighting spirit that has animated Harvard's sons on the blood-stained battlefields of Europe must be shown on the football field and in the stands. The long roll...
PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. 19.--After holding the Yale team to a scoreless tie nor two periods yesterday, the carefully drilled Princeton eleven went down to a 10 to 0 defeat before the grit and force of the inexperienced Yale team...
...college rowdyism, or "rah rah" spirit at Harvard. And for the majority an intercollegiate football game means something more than an opportunity to give vent to "canned enthusiasm" by wild cheers and drunkenness. It is a clean contest, well and fairly fought, an exhibition of skill, grit, loyalty and team-work, that leaves the spectator with an increased desire to attain those qualities for himself...