Word: loving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...College Spirit that makes such unreasonable demands of the men wearing the institution's colors. Apply the test to athletics or what you will, College Spirit, truly interpreted, is just and sensible. The trouble is that "College Spirit" has become a mere catch phrase with which college students love to conjure. It is used as an excuse - an' apology for something that has no right to exist. There is a genuine College Spirit,-and it is a "consummation devoutly to be wished." It means real loyalty,-not vandalism. Love of institution that prompts sane, beneficial activity is what the term...
...advisability of taking untrained men for the tasks of soldiery from their work which will result in incommensurable good to the state. What we may now hastily interpret as patriotism may only be an artificial excitement and a bubbling over of youth's strong and ever present love of adventure for such sentiment, Dean Briggs quoted as a remedy Mr. Gilbert's lines in "Iolanthe": "On fire that glows with heat intense, I turn the hose of common sense...
...make public demonstrations. Above all, do not take part in "rooting" to encourage others to do what you will not do yourself. Do not have so poor an opinion of your fellows as to think they need the stimulus of a cheering crowd to make them do their duty, love their country, or have the courage...
...conservatism that forces the Princetonian to take a reactionary view of this latest development of higher education spurting from the very fount of Knowledge; yet, the Princetonian is inclined to come forth with the anciently discredited dogma that to be philanthropic one must be inspired with a simon-pure love of mankind, undiluted by any expectation of future reward, be it diploma or otherwise...
...selecting three so similar. Had O. Henry himself written them we would be justified in asking a little variety. The two bits of verse, best characterized as pleasant, are neither important enough nor distinctive enough to relieve the sameness of the prose. At least, oh Advocate, one real love affair to make things interesting...