Word: vigor
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Herr Paul Kalisch, who has lately married Fr. Lilli Lehmann, is a very operatic singer, though his appearance is somewhat awkward. He has a pleasing voice, but his high notes seem strained. He chose an aria from "Fidelio" and gave it with much vigor...
...than a minute the crowd was squirted away. This saved the bowl's life. For now the Meds had come and were doing their best to take the bowl to Medical Hall. When the college men saw that the Meds were gaining steadily they combined their forces. With united vigor they hurled themselves against the advancing phalanx. But in vain! On and on it moved until the bottom of the stone steps leading to Medical Hall had been reached. Here the hottest fighting of the day was done. The college men collected their forces at the top of the embankment...
...latterly fellows have been waking up to the fact that their base-ball men have been somewhat negligent in beginning their work. After the question had been agitated, about thirty candidates presented themselves, and during the past few weeks they have been training with such determination and vigor as to make up for lost time. The names of the candidates are as follows: Cheney, Forsythe, Knox, Dunnell, Shaw, Wright, Cushing, W. McClintock, Hedges, R. Foster, Greer, Barnes, Childs, Young, Twombly, Sacket, Treadwell, Hall, St. John, N. E. Simms, Guy, Hopkins, Sears, Gage, Loomis, Herod and Gregory, '91, S. Besides these...
...honor have become weaker motives than they formerly were, and men's energies have been bent on the acquirement of material comfort and physical well-being. And, unfortunately, men's energies are not like water that turns the wheel of one mill and then flows on with undiminished vigor to the next; but like coal, which is consumed and lost in begetting steam. It is as true to-day as ever that man cannot serve two masters. What names can our civilization show among philosophers, poets and writers whose fame will outlive this century to warm the hearts and fire...
...enjoyment derived from sports is to him wholly secondary. The claim is made, and will be acknowledged by all, that it is impossible for the architectural faculties to attain to their full power without a well-formed and well-developed body from which to derive the vitality and vigor requisite for their manifestations. One of the indispensable conditions of the welfare of a human being is that a just equilibrium shall be maintained between the development of his mental and physical organs. That man's life is wasted who develops one side of his nature at the expense...