Word: vigor
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...fashioned" education in its increasing tendency to mould itself with too great pliability, to individual traits and tendencies. "With the kindergarten at one end of our education and with the elective system at the other we see, or seem to see a falling off in the vigor with which men attack distasteful but useful things,--a shrinking from the old resolute education." "The new product, the educated man of today, is in some measure the necessity of the time. The demands of a special calling require preparation so early and so long that the all-round man--that invaluable species...
...University nine defeated Tufts in a close but rather uninteresting game on Soldiers Field yesterday by a score of 5 to 4. In the field both teams showed up remarkably well, but the batting and base-running lacked dash and vigor. Three of the eight hits credited to Harvard were of the scratch order, and twice the side was retired with the bases full. On the other hand the men showed no impatience and generally good judgment in batting. Kernan pitched well except in the sixth and seventh innings when he let down and allowed Tufts five hits...
...score of 8 to 7. In the field the team showed up well except in the last three innings, when all of the six errors were made. The batting was decidedly weak, only four men hitting safely. In the first two innings the batting and base-running showed vigor and good judgment but the lead of six runs seemed to take all life and snap out of the play...
...Crusades. The opera is romantic in spirit, with a thrilling plot of many tragic situations and a happy denouement. The action centres around the invasion of Provence by the Saracens, and the music is strikingly characteristic in its use of Oriental color, while the dramatic portions are of great vigor and intensity. The style may be said to be Professor Paine's own, for it is neither like that of the modern French opera with its somewhat lighter mixture of the serious and the comic, nor like that of Wagner with its long monologues and extreme use of leading motives...
...Banjo Club's first number, a medley of negro melodies, was ragged. The rest of their playing, however, was better than their work of last year. "Back to Barracks," by R.G. Pratt '00, was given with dash and vigor...