Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...scholars as the athletic coach is in the welfare of his charges, or the officers of a social club in its promotion. Results do not seem to justify this belief. We listen to dreary, ill-prepared talks--not lectures--and at the end of an hour fly with a sigh of relief to the athletic field or to the clubs. It is conceivable, that, if all our instructors delivered their lectures with the earnestness and eloquence of our borrowed professors, and took the personal interest in those under them that an athletic coach does, the academic interests would...
...McKenna's "Baseball Outlook for 1907", a compact and concise statement of the conditions at Yale and Princeton, and a sanguine analysis of those at Harvard. If Mr. McKenna is right,--and that he is, is devoutly to be wished,--Harvard men may conclude their reading with a sigh of satisfaction, and, like the Coach, need lose on sleep. To one who for several years has not road closely the baseball columns of the daily papers, this article shows the amazing rapidity of growth possible in the technical language of a popular sport. Start who knock holes in batting averages...
...this is the House of Fellowship Binding with bonds that ne'er shall slip. Union of work - to fight to the end; Union of heart - to strive for one's friend; Union of strength - to renounce without sigh; Union of grit - to fall without cry; Union of wisdom - to read with mind free; Union of love - to give with glee; Union of head - to make life more plain; Union of hope - to win without stain. These are the ties this House shall breed; This is its rock-foundation creed. Symbol of Harvard Loyalty, House of Good Fellowship - Welcome to thee...