Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eleven good men and true, wearing the crimson jersey and pushing the muddy ball down the long field against the tide of defeat. Memory holds men more strongly than present discomfort. There are many loyal sons of Harvard, who, though disaster compass them about, will forget their weariness of limb and spirit when they hear the news from how that the team played a great game. Theirs will be the clear remembrance of pleasanter hours, which may not be eradicated...
This is not the time to review the methods of education in foreign countries. To be successful, any system must be consistent with itself, and it is unsafe to graft a foreign limb into a root unadapted to sustain it. So far as culture is concerned, our problem is to develop, in harmony with our own institutions, a type of education that will cause young people to enjoy the things the world has agreed are beautiful, to be interested in the knowledge mankind has found valuable, and to comprehend the principles the race has accepted as true. This is culture...
...will you use that outside life? What will your boy make of it? There are shrines of all kinds in college before which he may bow. Best, I think, is the one that's built to him of the straight clean back and limb, who bends to no social set, whose vision is unlimmed b y specious show but who 'plays the game' and that's the shrine that shall last...
...March 19, at 9 o'clock sharp). Christmas cheer mingled with the luxuries of the Tropics will await each and every Senior and help him forget what it feels like to have weathered four years in the reign of Cambridge. The First Corps Cadet Band, sound in wind and limb, will execute a few pieces with finish and abandon. The other entertainments are too good to be true. Come and see for yourselves, and make the Living Room worth living...
...sure that it has increased the chance of victory, and I am sure that it has damaged some players. In certain things related to athletic games the College should spare no expense; for example, she should studiously and at any cost reduce the danger to life and limb. On the other hand, the College should not watch her athletics with that kind of care which leads them to think their nervous systems the most significant thing in life and luxurious living a matter of course. A boy poor when he comes and poor when he goes gets a bad start...