Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...very much better. The first stanza of Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez's "The Game" is as good as any undergraduate verse one is likely to see in a long time, and the entire poem, though it does not keep up to this high level, is notable in its sincerity and vigor. Mr. Pulsifer's "The Riderless Horse" presents a striking idea with effective brevity, the difficult verse-form is fairly well handled, and the phrasing is at times admirable. The same writer's "Third Down," however, suffers from its close resemblance to four lines of Browning's "Meeting at Night...
...whole, the number is praise worthy as a presentation of material clearly representative of undergraduate thought on a subject of immediate interest. The weakness of the stories is offset by the vigor of the verse; and Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez's poem alone is enough to give the number distinction
...class-room work and thus keeping up in class-room work and thus keeping eligible for the teams. The idea of persistency, which is needed to develop a good football team, is also needed to make useful men. The spirit of Harvard, which alone will give a team the vigor and the support that will make it victorious, rests in the desire of each individual to do something that is worth while with all his power and all his enthusiasm...
William Peterson, Principal and Vice Chancellor of McGill University, whose firm hand has led it with unflagging zeal in calamity and in success; representative of the progressive vigor of Canadian education...
...months' trip to the Southwest and South. His journey can well be compared with a march of triumph, for everywhere he has been received with the enthusiasm shown only to the greatest men of the nation. His days have been busy ones, days which would tax the vigor of the most hardy. But throughout Mr. Eliot has given gladly of his powers for the benefit of the University which he represents, and has undoubtedly done much to strengthen Harvard's rapidly growing influence in the South...