Word: strong
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is a gladiatorial splendor about football which makes an elemental and therefore all the more strong appeal to young men, who are usually quite elemental. We may hope that it is the representative national game. It surely represents a higher ideal than baseball, which is an elaborate nonsense. The bravest of the Spartans would have felt a not ignoble thrill, sitting in the top row under the collonades, when Mahan met LeGore. It is a Roman game; it is a brave game...
...informal University team and were put through the same early season routine work by the coaches. More men are needed to report for this team to make it a success and as the men are assured of good coaching only the material is needed to develop a strong team...
Since the beginning of 1916 there has been a military organization in the University, designed to train men for national service. Since that remote era when Harvard spirit became a vitallizing force in the molding of men's character there has been a clear and strong love of country in the University...
...passing out of the personal life, dear as that may be to those who have known him, which constitutes the loss. It is the unfulfilled promise, the vacant years, the deeds not done which might have been well done, the cutting short of a strong man's life. For the loss of these no vacant praise, nor deeper memory, nor most bitter grief may at all avail...
Knowing that addition of advice makes for subtraction of wit, in spite of the strong yearnings of the counsellor, we shall refrain from making the usual comments, surpassing the usual exhortations, or triplicating the usual golden prophecies...