Word: real
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...mighty good thing, remember that you had better never play at all than to get into a condition of mind where you regard play as the serious business of life, or where you permit it to hamper and interfere with your doing your full duty in the real work of the world...
...special word as one Harvard man to his follow Harvard men. I feel that we can none of us ever be sufficiently grateful to Major Higginson for having founded this Harvard Union, because each loyal Harvard man should do all he can to foster in Harvard that spirit of real democracy which will make Harvard men feel the vital sense of solidarity so that they can all join to work together in the things that are of most concern to the College. It is idle to expect, nor indeed would it be desirable, that there should be in Harvard...
...schools are able to keep football clean and to develop the right spirit in the players without the slightest necessity ever arising to so much as consider the question of abolishing it. There is no excuse whatever for colleges failing to show the same capacity, and there is no real need for considering the question of the abolition of the game. If necessary, let the college authorities interfere to stop any excess or perversion, making their interference as little officious as possible, and yet as rigorous as is necessary to achieve the end. But there is no justification for stopping...
...fact that he is not the great man, when he meets an old college chum named Knight Byrd who induces him to keep up the pretence and to manufacture a market forecast for the paper. The letter is written with random carelessness and sent to the paper before the real millionaire arrives. Joshua P. Brown, of course, quickly dethrones Jimmy; but the letter has already done its work and Vanderventer Parks, the father of Frances Parks, "Jimmy's" flancee, is almost ruined by the consequent drop of the stock in his company. At this discovery the hero at once writes...
...last year. There was no work done yesterday except by a few men who rowed on the machines under the direction of Coaches Wray and Stephenson. All the men who desired have been receiving a small amount of special coaching on the machines for several weeks, but the first real work will begin today at 3 o'clock. All the men who reported have been assigned to regular squads. The work of the squads will be the same as last year, with E. Farley '07 in charge, although Wray will do all the coaching. At present the work will consist...