Word: pluckings
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...varsity nine will leave for Princeton from in front of Leavitt and Peirce's at twelve o'clock today. Every student in the University who admires determination and pluck will be there to give them a rousing send...
...time for unjust criticism, but rather for unhesitating support. Because things look bad, there is all the more reason why the University should show its appreciation of honest effort. We believe that Harvard men have as much pluck as Yale men, that the quality of courage and persistence produced in Cambridge is not a whit below that in New Haven. But now is a time for Harvard pluck to be proved, for Harvard to make every one believe that she is not dismayed because the odds are heavily against her, but that she will give her team the heartiest support...
...fallacy to think that football men are bruisers. They are chosen for their pluck, energy and courage, and these requisites are more often found in the more intellectual and gentlemanly students than among the brutal ones. Gill and Cowan, who were perhaps the most famous tackles who ever played football, were both ministers, and four out of the last six captains at Yale have been in good standing in the University and prominent...
...fellow win a scholarship. Neither the very rich man nor the very poor is in the contest at all. The poor man cannot train for a scholarship and earn his living at the same time. Yet this same poor fellow, Mr. Bolles recognized, often brought to the University that pluck, all round activity, and tenacity of faith that we needed together with our spirit of acquisition and sense of culture. The meagre addition of a scholarship to the already large list, regarded as prizes, would be a kind of cold irony upon Mr. Bolles's love of seeing the unequipped...
...memorial to Frank Bolles in the interest of the poor man will be remote from any system of competitive prizes; it will be something capable of enlargement by the enlistment of student pluck and cooperation; it will be instinct with charity and a simple, firm reproof of the spirit of mendicancy...