Word: mens
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...idea of Handicaps were carried out and made a fact instead of an idea, it would serve as a great stimulant to athletics. Such races held, say biweekly on Friday afternoons, when there is nothing going on, and for cups of moderate value, would command a large entry, and men who contested each time would soon run themselves into first-class condition, and render the time made at the Spring and Fall Meetings creditable to themselves and to the College. As matters now stand, one or two men are regarded as invincible, simply because they train somewhat, and have speed...
Captain North further gave out, as his opinion, that the best men in the class were training...
...time when the lives of great men are held up for our imitation, and their characters are studied as containing the secret of success, it is well to draw a lesson, or two, from the failures of an unsuccessful...
...with Jeremiah, and to have increased his desire for literary fame. Every scrap of paper that fell in his way, - even the backs of his late father's receipted bills and the margins of the Hampton Gazette - he appropriated with a miserly eagerness that reminds one of Pope. Few men are content to write much without a thought of publication, and soon the fatal itching to get into print seized Jeremiah. Whittier, when a farm-boy, sent a poem on a scrap of paper to an editor, and immediately his genius was recognized. Smith did more; he wrote a long...
...facile pen. History says that M. W. rejected the poems, but accepted the man. Jeremiah, in consideration of his increased happiness, consented to abandon his literary projects, and to devote himself to farming. In this pursuit he achieved a success which neither he nor a great many other young men like him could have won in poetry or prose...