Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first half describes the appearance in the court of King Arthur, at Yuletide, of a stalwart knight all clad in green, who challenges the assembled knights to a strange contest. The green knight offers to allow any man present to deal him a blow with his axe on condition that he (the green knight) may deal a return blow a twelvemonth hence at the Green Chapel. Sir Gawain is the only knight valiant enough to accept the challenge. Accordingly, with a ponderous blow he chops off the green knight's head. But the latter picks his head up again...
...reputation of our University is to be sustained we must have the best material to meet these teams and defeat them. An excellent start has been made, and a number of good men are out daily, practicing and learning to handle the sticks; but many other stalwart, active men should join the squads and try for the team, which is as yet entirely unformed. Our 'varsity and second lacrosse teams should be composed of the best men in college, and Captain Leighton would be very glad to have any one interested join the squads and begin training...
Today ninety-four bids her social goodbye to Harvard. It will bring unfeigned regret to hundreds of the students who are to remain longer in the University. Ninety-four has many members who, by reason of their stalwart manliness and refined gentlemanliness, it has been an education to know...
...fatality that had dragged Gunnar to his death seems now to pursue the family of Njal. The conspicuous character in this second part is Skarphethin, stalwart, always grimly smiling with his battle axe upraised. He kills his foster brother, and when at the Olthing a bully upbraids him, he smiled and striking forward said "Do now one of two things Thorkell foul-mouth, sheath your sword and set down or I'll drive the axe into your head, and cleave you down into the shoulders." Thorkell sat down. Njal and his sons are attacked and the house set on fire...
...Wilcox's story "McClane of the Harvards" shows much cleverness in its treatment of those two antagonistic elements of Harvard life,- athletic enthusiasm and cultivated indifference. It is the author's excellent delineation of these two phases of college life,- as exemplified by Phil McClane, the stalwart' Varity football player, and Mr. Percival Perrion, the well-spring of whose life is "Culture and Discriminating Appreciativeness," which makes this story one of the best of the year...