Word: vigor
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...qualities considered in an applicant are those of manhood, force of character and leadership, literary and scholastic attainments, and physical vigor as shown by interest in outdoor sports and in other ways...
...effort to utilize adequately the enthusiastic idealism that is the first and most vital force in the social activity of the individual student. Whether or not this plan, if it is put into effect, will succeed, will depend in the same way that all such enterprises depend, on the vigor, and intelligence, and vision of those who come to administer it. Given these three prerequisites, it provides the machinery by which undergraduate social service may be made firm, effective, and enduring...
...Opposition seized upon a vital point, hammered it with much vigor. Some of the Games would be held on Sunday. The Calvinists held up their hands in horror, ejaculated: "How terrible!" They would support no bill that would thus desecrate the Sabbath...
...Harvard men are perhaps unusually apt to express their views with independence and vigor." It is a tradition that Harvard undergraduates as well as graduates indulge and are encouraged in independent thought and free speech, and that they are less restrained than the men of some other colleges, who are encouraged to live think and speak in the established mould. It has frequently been said that Harvard men can be found on every side of every question. This independence and individuality may be a source of pride, but it does not always contribute to team-play and, when too vociferous...
...hear of Mr. Camp's death. He has known Mr. Camp for many years as a Yale coach and in his later advisory capacity. "The passing of Walter Camp", he said, "is a great loss to athletics both in schools and in colleges. He retained in middle life the vigor and the enthusiasms of youth to a remarkable degree. His influence was wide and significant and was always exercised in the best directions...