Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...published an appeal to students in general and Yale men in particular to stop the growing evil of gambling. He says, "years of toleration have enabled it to fasten itself on students' life with the tenacity of a tumor on the human vitals, so that reform may call for heroic action." To overcome this evil he suggests among other means, "a resolution calling for action at the next annual meeting of the inter-collegiate Y. M. C. A., in order that a crusade against gambling in all colleges may be called...
...change and as far as I can learn, the only serious complaint is that the service in the dining room is not as good as it should be, that some of the waiters are careless and others incompetent. I must say that it seems to me very heroic treatment to decapitate the steward when a change of head waiter may cure the trouble, when indeed it looks very much as if such a change had already very considerably lessened the evil. The hall is so much better now than under the steward who held office when I first joined...
...saying: "That he was sure all present felt deeply touched by the story of the devotion and self-denial of the noble men who are bravely struggling to build up Roanoke College, doing what is to them a sacred work. For some years past he had learned of this heroic and self-sacrificing endeavor and the more he knew of the work and its representatives the more he esteemed both, and such would be the case with all as they become acquainted with President Dreher and the college. Roanoke is now what Harvard was 100 years ago, in buildings...
...discovered an ancient city? and if that city were Homer's Troy? All these points he had denied at the time, but was soon obliged to recant. Within the Agora of Mycenae five tombs were opened, and the many golden ornaments found therein undoubtedly belong to the Heroic Age. The speaker thought that although Schleimann has not made the romantic discovery of the tombs of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra upon the hill at Hissarlik, yet he has made discoveries more important to archaeology. Out of its height of 112 feet, the real hill of Hissarlik is but 60 feet, the remaining...
...long satirical poem, curiously called "The Ad," which runs throughout the volume and which is credited to Everett, is conducted with much spirit through its long course. I cannot describe it; it is rambling and incoherent and professedly a local satire. It is in heroic couplets, and Mr. J. Lowbard is its titular author. To display its character I need only quote parts of the argument of one book, which treats of "The arts of rising in the world - Marriage - Poetry - Dolphins - Geese - British Cruisers - Spithead - Aphorisms of two kinds, sharp and flat...