Word: vigor
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...mind of the student must be led, and the lead must be attractive. If the classroom, the lecture, and the conference have not the vigor of the world of sport, one cannot condemn youth for choosing the latter. The educator who would build character, build the wholeness which has been an ideal ever since the Greeks first demonstrated it, must not content himself with thwarting natural tendencies. He must divert those tendencies into the most effective channels...
Bernarr Macfadden, blatant apostle of "Health." "There he stands, almost in the garb with which nature clad him, a majestic figure with lungs inflated, pompadour defying the world. His skin . . . is full of strength. . . . He has taken what should be a beautiful search for health, for vigor and for strength, and made of it an ugly and discouraging thing to every right-minded individual...
Scholarship implies not only the acquisition of knowledge, the building up of intellectual culture but, even of greater importance, it implies the development of mental clarity and vigor, the ability to use your minds to the greatest possible effect upon whatever problems may in future present themselves. Indeed, one of the greatest assets you can acquire in your University training is to learn how to think straight...
...gusty psychology of tramp life, the cruelty and the laughter, the denial of the lot of man to work -these are the themes. It is not a pretty play nor is its dialog courteously scented. It seems a true play, strong and sound. It is charged with the vigor of an engrossing humor...
...mediocre man is successful in a game of skill only so long as he can forget drama and concentrate on the physical act; to remember, when aiming his last white tiddlewink at the cup, that his mother is looking on, spells ruin. But champions steal a vigor from exigency and use the electric air of crises as a wine. Perhaps the foremost exponent of this ability is William Tilden. No other personage engaged in sport has an equal sense of the dramatic...