Word: unafraidness
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There is in him much of the philosopher and scholar, who is more at ease among his books than in the stormy atmosphere of the Chamber of Deputies. He has stood, ever since he entered politics, as a detached figure towering above all pettiness, unsullied and unafraid. His public service is probably over, and he can now retire to private life with the consciousness that he has deserved well of his country, and that despite his enemies today, his name will go down to history as among the real statesmen of France...
From such reading one is happy to return to the editorials which this time are by far the best part of the number. It is hoped that with the first of these editorials, a clear, definite, unafraid statement of our position, the "Brown of Harvard" episode will be dropped in press and in conversation. The beautiful tribute to Professor James in the second gives expression to the love and respect held for him by all his former students. The paragraph in "public lectures given in the University" is interesting as snowing our quickness in detecting cheap sentiment, affectation...
...above, of course, is the broad way of putting it, but the fundamental rule is absolutely necessary. Let Harvard football be unafraid of hurting some one's feelings. Our chief opponent, Yale, has gone through exactly the same experience in football that Harvard has encountered, but her eyes have been opened quicker, and her visiting coaches, and her coaches that are not directly responsible through the head coach have come in ample numbers to New Haven, have been rightly welcomed, and have done a lot of good...