Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...established truth that veteran teams inevitably meet with success? Advocating this idea can but result in inspiring our teams with a feeling of over-confidence which, we know, is always and forever to be avoided. Let the fact that we are tied with Harvard, our valiant adversary, in the number of victories upon land and water incite our men to even greater efforts so that, when the last game at the field has been played and the course at New London finished, the brow of St. Elihu may once again be graced with the laurel crown...
Company B of Colonel Bancroft's regiment that prepared for such valiant service, was dismissed at 11:30 on Tuesday night. There were high old times up in the armory during their stay...
...copp" more prudent than valiant retreats. In this case discretion was doubtless the better part of valor. We in the front rank agreed to throw down our torches. Now comes the rush. I can tell you little except what happened to myself. I pulled my "plug" down over my ears and rushed in. At the first onset somebody knocked off my hat- I thought my head had gone too- I put my hands up, it is my head, still there, thank heaven! But I have no reason to rejoice, for when I left home that night as the last buckle...
...valiant sophomore gathered four '88 hats at the rush on Monday evening. Next...
...poor friend's round, jovial appearance (slightly swollen, perhaps), and the elasticity of his movements, gave promise of many years more to be added to a long life which even then eclipsed the oldest graduate's. When he rose exulting in the air, propelled by the toe of the valiant Ropes, looking like the war angel sounding the onset and hovering over the mingling fray, we little thought then that to-day he would lie so low, surrounded by weeping Sophs! Exult, ye Freshmen, and clap your hands! The wise men who make big laws around a little table have...