Word: life
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...athlete keeps in training throughout the year. True, he does not sit at a training table and gaze with ani mated longing at a cigarette. He does, however, train his body to the best of his ability. If we have sensible training a man can keep in training a life-time without physical harm. The healthiest men I have ever known have been professional athletes in constant training. If every athlete here at College is sensible and looks after his own training, he can train every moment of his life without physical injury...
...Lunt '09 introduced Mr. Copeland, the speaker of the evening, who gave an interesting account of the undergraduate life of M. Newell '94, commenting upon his charming character and the brilliancy of his mind. It is in memory of Newell, who was one of the greatest athletes ever graduated from Harvard, that the Newell Gate on Soldiers Field and the Newell Boat Club have been erected. Mr. Copeland also read extracts from his college diary, which further recalled his great versatility...
...Life in Ancient Athens," by T. G. Tucker...
...useless to refute the idea that the actor's calling offers more temptations to loafers than any other profession. But it is equally fallacious to think that the actor's life is one sequence of success. There exists in this art the same discouragement known to all professions. The real cause of all the unpleasant publicity concerning the actor and his private life lies not so much in what he may or may not have done but in the insatiable desire of journalism to cater to the public taste. The delusion which exists in many minds that the actors...
...current number. And as Arminius has succeeded in giving us landscape, so V. W. Brooks '08 in his essay "The Daemon of Poetry" has given us what perhaps is more unusual, a suggestion of the visions that are sometimes granted to our prosaic souls and that are the life of poets. The essay is very delicate, often subtle, and withal simple. "Chesterton and the Philosophy of Paradox," by L. Simonson '09, is very thoughtful but not thoroughly worked out. The author has not given Chesterton, the whole man. He recognizes the value, critical and philosophical, of many of Chesterton...