Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...vegetables were allowed and few starches, as these were supposed to be bad for the athlete's wind. The meats were then cooked very rare for all. Individual tastes were not consulted. The men were then trained as a body and it was not considered that in order to keep them in good condition the individual men required different treatment. An important part of the recent changes has been along the line of the individual needs of the men. The food is now about the same as would be served at a first-class home table...
...intercollegiate chess tournament will open on December 26th at the rooms of the Harvard School, cor. Fifth Avenue and 47th St., New York. The Manhattan Chess Club kindly offered their rooms for the tournament, but as in was deemed desirable to keep the tournament a purely college affair, the offer was declined...
...last characteristic of true religion is progressiveness. Religion must keep pace with humanity, and humanity knows no standstill. The fault with your religion is that it dissociates itself from other pursuits. With us, science grew out of religion, but in your country you are engaged in a fight with science in which you must inevitably be driven into a corner. If you fight religion with science, both must perish. Let your religion be simple and natural, but let it always keep progressing with the rapid progress...
...chance of winning; such a feeling is in its nature insecure and half-hearted. Each man in the University should make up his mind that Harvard must win and that he as a student has a part to play in the winning and that that part is to keep out of his own mind and out of his own words everything that savors of doubt and lack of interest. Individual opinion and conjecture should sink out of sight below a great wave of hope and determination. Each one of us should see before him the picture of the game...
...front who had voice enough to make himself heard or personality enough to command respect. This year the enthusiasm which is being stored up here every day will break out in great confusion on the day of the game unless there are capable men to keep it in some sort of order. The men chosen to lead the cheering should be men with good voices whose records here at college have shown them to possess the qualities of natural leadership. Unless they have the respect of the students in the sections no concerted cheering can be expected. And this...