Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very unhappy and takes little interest in life. So when the church will not express the will of Christ He must be unhappy. Each one of us is a member of His body and is responsible for the proper action of it. Let each one then be loyal to the Church and make of it a body in which Christ really lives...
...Harvard's the strongest eleven of the season, our victory over Pennsylvania last year, and the fine playing of the team in the Yale game had led us all to expect a different outcome. But all we can do is to accept the defeat cheerfully and keep up a loyal spirit, and support the eleven next year even more heartily than this year. We cannot be too grateful to Captain Emmons, Dr. Brooks, Mr. Deland, Lewis, and the other coaches for their untiring efforts this year. They have done their best and that has been wonderfully well. The team...
Realizing perfectly that the impulse of the reader who comes upon the words "loyal support of the eleven" is to toss his paper aside with some such remark as "the same old drool," we nevertheless once more venture a few words on the subject...
...grounds, and, if every University cheers for its own teams, no injustice is done in the end. It is simply not to be expected that students shall not wish to show their loyalty, and we believe that this can be done with all courtesy to visiting teams. Loyal every student ought to be and loyal every student ought to show himself...
...class spirit would be bad. A normal class spirit helps, rather than hinders, a university spirit. If a student's loyalty is to be real, and not sentimental, it must be for that which is really closely connected with his life. Now the freshman, for example, more readily becomes loyal to the class and then to the University than he would to the University taken alone. It is easier to commence with the part and work up to the whole than to take the whole at once. Besides this, there is considerable danger that specialization may lead to narrowness...