Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...playing of the University was much improved over the game displayed against the sailor nines, which had scored victories previously. Stronger pitching was noticeable...
...American is naturally an egoist. He loves to do things in a spectacular way with himself as hero. Subconsciously he knows himself to be just a little better, stronger, and more farsighted than any foreigner. This supreme confidence, misplaced as it may be, gives him unbounded energy to do his part well. It is, however, often damaging. He instinctively tends to belittle his enemy and to consider him a foe of decidedly inferior mettle. American soldiers, officers and men, arrive in France, fresh from their training camps, without any doubts that their march toward Berlin is to continue peacefully uninterrupted...
...anyone at home dares suggest that possibly the enemy may be stronger than we expect, he is looked upon as a pessimist. If he protests against heavy expenditures for displays of an emotional sort, he is fortunate if he is not considered openly unpatriotic. Even those who have been to France and have seen war stripped of its garnishings, ineffectually try to stem the tide of current opinion. Nothing but time and suffering can do it, and how intensely painful the realization is going to be! We will find that, though we are sending to France armies of the finest...
...nation is coming in behind the country stronger than ever in this loan and we hope that Harvard will follow up her spirit as shown in the R. O. T. C., by subscribing more heavily than ever. There is no reason why you, by pledging some of your possible future pleasures, can not all help to carry this loan 'over the top' to the greatest success, and, incidentally, establish a principle of saving that will stand all of you in good stead at all times in the future...
...military courses in the University. Lieutenant Colonel Edward Croft, Director of Schools at the cantonment, in a conference with members of the University military staff last Sunday expressed the hope that the relations between the R. O. T. C. and the officers at Devens, once begun would grow stronger as time went on, and that the cantonment and the University training corps would find it possible to continue a mutually helpful alliance...