Word: strive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...forth-coming number of the Lampoon is on the whole above the standard. Since the '98 board came in, the paper has shown a most laudable tendency to strive for genuine wit rather than to depend upon puns. The present number is a good example of the success of this. Many of the pieces are excellent, and the one headed "Lampy's Bureau of Heraldry" is as good as anything the paper has done for a long time. Another thing to be praised about the number is that it is got to press unencumbered by any illustrated love offerings...
...return for what he has done, particularly for the rowing interests of the University and in general for the good of college sport in America. It has fallen to Mr. Lehmann to teach us all the lesson of true sportsmanship: to treat opponents with fairness and courtesy, and to strive to the end that the best team...
...preparing the way for evolution there are some things to be avoided and considered. Avoid urging changes foreign to our habits, customs and thought. It will do harm. Recognize the value of the cultivation of righteousness and morality. Strive to secure progress toward a better and nobler future by processes evolutionary rather than revolutionary, by appeals to reason rather than to prejudice. Be true to yourself, your University and your country...
...congratulations to the men chosen to represent the University in the coming debate with Princeton. We feel sure that they will realize fully the responsibility laid upon them and the opportunity offered them. They are to represent Harvard in a contest with another great university in which they must strive to regain the prestige lost by the defeat sustained at the hands of Yale. The defeat which we thus suffered will not materially affect us if we retrieve ourselves by a victory in the coming contest. But should we lose the Princeton debate untold injury would result. Only by hard...
Today the Harvard sections should set an example of concerted cheering which, at future football games, will be looked back to as the best that a Harvard audience has ever given, and which, as the best, future audiences will strive to equal...