Word: tend
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...admit that the Harvard atmosphere has ever been narrow or snobbish, we do think that a healthy wave of democracy and intelligent class loyalty has swept over the University during the last college generation. We have come to realize that a large University has some disadvantages which tend to counteract its many advantages and which can only be overcome by some unusual effort--artificial at first, perhaps, but soon becoming real and natural. We are not ashamed that Yale has noticed our effort and we believe that every Harvard man will be glad to meet Yale on the ground...
...evenly than during the first part of the week, but there is still a tendency to lag at the catch and to rush the slide. Fish showed up remarkably well at stroke in the second crew. The weak point seems to be at the full reach, where the men tend to work individually rather than together...
...second great evil that the investigating committee found in the slums was the environment in which the children were raised, which it described as containing all the influences that tend toward unrighteousness and corruption. Much of the best work that has been done in New York to offset this environment has been accomplished by means of new school-houses, recreation centres, and open playgrounds. In the last few years $80,000,000 has been spent by the School Committee of New York in this work...
...find that a certain instinct of the laws of possession pervades and governs the actions of animals of the higher types. By their mating, all animals tend to monogamy, which is reached to the highest degree in foxes and geese...
...needs physical courage no less than moral courage, the courage, that dares as well as the courage that endures, the courage that will fight valiantly alike against the foes of the soul and the foes of the body. Athletics are good, especially in their rougher forms, because they tend to develop such courage. They are good also because they encourage a true democratic spirit; for in the athletic field the man must be judged, not with reference to outside and accidental attributes, but to that combination of bodily vigor and moral quality which go to make up prowess...