Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hand, is graceful, dignified and highly suggestive. "The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory," read before the Phi Beta Kappa in 1898, is perhaps the best work in the book. The moral it teaches might be remembered to great advantage today by many of those in quest of the strenuous life. One bit, in a description of a recent Harvard-Yale football game, seems at this time particularly apropos...
...game of a week ago Saturday are still much in evidence. The chief fault to be criticised is the one that has existed throughout the season, slowness both in the line and back of it. The forwards are strong and heavy but play in a lifeless way and the strenuous efforts of the coaches during the week to correct this fault have met with only partial success. The backs start slowly, depending almost entirely on the ability of the line-men to open up big holes for them. In interference the team shows good possibilities. The guards have been very...
...life of the man of Southern France is a happy medium between the lazy, and therefore melancholy existence of the Spaniard, and the strenuous, rugged life of the Northerner. In this southern society where man is more easy-going and gallant than hardworking, nearly all responsibility falls on woman. Always pious and valiant, she bears on her shoulders all the duties of the home, and has won for herself the affection and admiration of all Frenchmen...
...certainly worth some risk, as are also the lessons of experience and self-denial, and the spirit of co-operation, that must be learned. In the matter of health alone I think it open to grave doubt, as to whether the men who actually take part in the most strenuous of our sports, would not be the better if the strain was somewhat less severe. This was recognized in football some years ago, when the time of play in championship games was reduced from two halves of 45 minutes each, to two halves of 35 minutes...
...from the Bible, and then spoke briefly about the life and work of the deceased. Professor Thayer, he said, was one of the few true scholars of the day. Whatever task he undertook was always thoroughly performed, and never had to be done over. His life was so manly, strenuous and truthful that he won the respect and love of all who came in contact with him. Professor Thayer's life work was the interpretation and criticism of the New Testament, a work for which he was noted throughout the Christian world. He was not only a master...