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...there is no justification for stopping a thoroughly manly sport because it is sometimes abused, when the experience of every good preparatory school shows that the abuse is in no shape necessarily attendant upon the game. We cannot afford to turn out of college men who shrink from physical effort or from a little physical pain. In any republic courage is a prime necessity for the average citizen if he is to be a good citizen; and he needs physical courage no less than moral courage, the courage, that dares as well as the courage that endures, the courage that...
...Ayres or phantasticke spirits. Thomas Weelkes-"Some Men desire Spouses. No. No. Though I shrink Still, the Nightingale...
...American writers Hawthorne was the most imaginative and sensitive. His boyhood and his early manhood were marked by a strange and almost morbid hyper-sensitiveness of nature that made him shrink instinctively from contact with others. He lived in the realm of his own creative fancy, and of the actual world about him he had little knowledge and less experience. His life was reflected in his early writings, and they are unnatural and constrained...
...forth laborers into the harvest." That is the only way to save the poor. There must be laborers and the labor is for college men. Will Harvard stand forth to its own glory for truth and justice and pity for the poor, or will it to its everlasting shame shrink back and let the poor take care of themselves...
...only was the entrance of many of these students boisterous in the extreme, but the disheveled appearance, and language of one or two at least was such as to make a young girl at my side shrink in disgust. During the whole performance not only was a constant noise kept up, but the actors and actresses were guyed and annoyed, often most insultingly, and had it not been for the courage of the chief actress, who finally refused to proceed with her part until quiet had been restored, the performance might have ended in dire confusion...