Word: vigor
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...exception of Coolidge, Wendell, and Matthews, the Harvard, team batted very poorly, making in all only one earned run. Although eight hits were made, these were so scattered that they had very little effect. The base running was fair for this time of year, but lacked dash and vigor. In the field the principal fault was the throwing, which was very inaccurate. This unsteadiness would have been very c stly if the team had been playing against a stronger nine...
...preaches country life and M. Le Roux, believing that the French should know more about the outside world, especially wished in his own works to make his people familiar with foreign lands. He spoke of the virtues of patriotism, and in closing paid a grateful tribute to the great vigor of American ideas...
...France appears to us as a modern Voltaire, combining the same vigor with clearness of thought and purity of style. He has less esprit than Voltaire but more grace; is equally ironical but tempers the irony with pity. As is always the case when a new class is replacing a worn out one, M. France has appeared as the writer who hastens with his pen the disappearance of the old regime...
...consider for a minute why we have athletic sports at all. Is it not for the pleasure and amusement to be gained from them, for the cultivation of manliness and for the benefit to general health and vigor? Of course in the case of our big teams or crews, where the strain is most severe, men do not try for them for their health, but to "make" the team, and for the honor and advancement to be gained thereby. And this is certainly worth some risk, as are also the lessons of experience and self-denial, and the spirit...
...leading graduates interested in rowing, to help the Harvard crew out of the rut into which it had fallen. He was a man of great natural enthusiasm and charming manner, the College and the rowing men were delighted with him and went at the task with renewed hope and vigor...