Word: manned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...more gratifying to those who played the trick than to see students and instructors gravely discussing the moral aspects of an affair, which, when the worst has been granted, is nothing but a "Freshman trick." When a newspaper in all solemnity declares that "the cheek of every true Harvard man should blush for shame" for such an occurrence, and that such conduct threatens the very existence of the lecture system of instruction, the affair becomes more comic than its perpetrators could possibly have hoped. When we are grave they call us stiff-necked and blase; when we come down...
...very great believer in athletics because I believe that although intellect is a good thing, the University should do more than develop that alone. Force, strength of will and character are things that can not be neglected in a well-organized body. A man to be sure must not be known merely as having been a good athlete while in college. He must do something afterwards. And while I appreciate to the full what a well trained mind means, I am bound to say that the longer I live I come to believe that intellect comes second to the powers...
...life, men who went out into the world of action, great statesmen, great soldiers, men like Washington who founded his country and Lincoln who saved it. The most important of all virtues are those that make men able to hold their own for themselves and their country. The man who has those qualities is the one who will make himself useful to his country in after life...
...deeply concerned in all that concerns the honor and credit of Harvard University. It is a sense of personal gratification, whenever I hear that in scholarship, in public life, or in athletics, a foremost stand has been taken by a Harvard man. In athletics or in anything else, so long as something worthy of the honor of Harvard is in a man's keeping, so long as the man who represents Harvard carries with him the feeling that part of Harvard's fame is his, so long as he remembers that the next thing to victory is honorable defeat...
...man who by mistake took the wrong dress shirt protector at the Waltham concert may have his own by leaving it at 105 Irving street...