Word: plucking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...home when the break is made. Therefore, men who have never done much running need not fear to try their modest powers in the weekly hunts. Then, too, it is not the best short distance runner that wins the cup, it is the man with the most endurance and pluck. Thus, there is a chance for all. The more, therefore that go, the more enjoyable is the run. Let a hundred men turn out this afternoon ready to run, "and give the alarm to every Middlesex village and farm," including, too, the quiet streets and houses of Old Cambridge...
...literary power of the class is almost unprecedented, their scholarship has done them credit; but it will not require a very extensive lapse of time to prove that the lessons of a college, however large, are not the lessons of life. The power of grind must resolve itself into pluck, facility to learn must become sagacity, and ambition for college honors must give place to a higher and nobler strife, to make college training a proper preparation for after life. But why need we offer the unprofitable advice of a younger brother? It is justly expected...
...doubly interesting and exciting from the fact that Yale will be represented in the same race with Harvard and Columbia. Judging from the accounts that have reached Cambridge, the crews seem to be as evenly matched as possible, and victory will come to the crew which shows the greatest pluck and endurance. The Yale freshmen are considered this year to have the best eight that has been at New Haven for years, and for this very reason they asked to be admitted into the contest. The Columbia freshmen have been at work on the Thames for three weeks...
...freshman game the same year, that we hoped she had mended her manners; and last year justified our hopes in a certain degree. It is this intense feeling over the result of every game that accounts for the desperation of Yale's play, and the dogged pluck she exhibits in athletics; but gentlemanly enthusiasm is almost as effective, and far more graceful for college men, than the bear-garden behavior in vogue at cocking mains and prize fights. It is one of the most creditable things in '89's record that she bore all this abuse patiently, without attempting...
...foul which Allen caught yesterday afternoon was one of the prettiest occurrences in the game. The reporters were not a little surprised to find their table upset and their score books deluged in a flood of ice water. The pluck with which Allen ran into the formidable "board" elicited unbounded applause...