Word: honest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...years of continuous victory, we lost the cup to Yale's exceptionally strong team. Only the most earnest and strenuous efforts can this year restore Harvard to the position she so long held at the head of track and field athletics in the colleges. Every man who takes an honest pride in the athletic victory of Harvard and feels any shame at her defeat ought to help on the Mott Haven team to the best of his ability...
Yours humbly,HONEST JEEMS...
...brief summary he declared that the bill was prepared by a laborious committee and introduced by an honest chairman. It contained some provisions good and useful, and some needless, wasteful and badly applied. There was an opportunity for fair debate in the House. The Senate loaded it with amendments, some of them iniquitous, and the House conferees yielded to them. It was passed because a majority of the members were interested in some specific appropriation which could not be obtained without voting the whole bill. The President refused his signature, and thus the bill was lost. It failed because, while...
...whole history of experience has been honest, industrious, humble, modest and unassuming over land and sea. I am the greatest pedestrian in the world. I have travelled on foot over 50,000 miles, and over 50,000 miles on sea, and my name has been immortalized, and I have had more than one hundred demonstrations and receptions, but I have not made one cent out of all over my expenses. My next great circular is the Invisible Power of All-visible Powers. I have been to the principal colleges of America the last fifty years...
...week before Easter, I ran down to Harrow to see a series of sports by the boys of that famous school. Winchester and Eaton, Harrow and Marlborough are the four great school nurseries for Oxford and Cambridge, and there is no honest athletic pastime but what is encouraged and enjoyed in these schools, the oldest of which (Winchester) has just celebrated its 500th anniversary. Where is there a school in our country where on a Saturday you can see spirited contests in running, leaping, cricketing, foot-balling, rowing and (mind you) all of this is a part in the physical...