Word: hardihood
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Equally to be admired are the fine generosity of his thought and the hardihood with which he exposes his bank account to the zeal of competing "drive" teams. One casual sentence, moreover, discloses an underlying wisdom. "Almost without exception self-made men educate their own children." With only a single step further in the enlightenment of self-interest, we arrive at the conclusion that, as the ultimate beneficiary of advanced education is the community as a whole, the community as a whole should be reckoned the professor's ultimate debtor...
...American universities which have begun in recent years to compete with them. They also have contests in snowshoeing,--long cross-country walks which try the endurance of a man more than any other sport. This is the easiest of the three winter sports to learn, but it requires more hardihood and more endurance than either of the others...