Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Courage, alertness of mind, strength of body, staying power, loyal devotion-nobody doubts these qualities in some athlete who makes the great adventure, wins prestige for his college, and gains the admiring interest of untold millions of newspaper readers, and hears the wild applause of the thousands who see the great game. But I've often asked myself whether it ever occurs to the athlete to think that it is precisely these qualities-in a word, downright sand- that go to the making of the great scholar...
When we arranged the Humphries meeting we were actuated by two motives: 1, the desire of every loyal Harvard man to enrich the intellectual opportunities of the College; 2, the desire to stimulate here at Harvard an unpartizan study of conditions in Russia...
...coming. As a consequence, only the ones who lived nearby did come here, and the charge of sectionalism was made against the University. In the last fifteen years, due to the work of the Harvard Clubs, the cause for the prejudice was largely overcome. But the words of these loyal graduates cannot influence their localities as much as is desirable; there is still a belief existent in some quarters that Harvard is by choice a strictly eastern man's college...
...taste of real football for one-half of the Princeton game did they find themselves. From then on nothing could stop them. Not until the undergraduates saw their team fighting to the last ditch at Princeton did they know what backing was. After that none could be more loyal...
...scores should take the edge from our over-confidence, and when it is realized that Yale was without the services of her captain, we will be brought back to earth with a thud. Our team is a fighting aggregation, well grounded in the fundamentals. With the support of a loyal, but not overconfident student body, they will offer Yale and Princeton a sturdy battle. We face a stiff assignment; a double victory is not a sinecure...