Word: vigor
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...lessen the importance of Greek in the curriculum by giving more prominence to French and German has been again and again renewed; and now, strengthened by Adams's essay read before the Phi Beta Kappa in June, the supporters of the modern languages have renewed the contest with more vigor than ever before. At the last meeting of the faculty the subject was introduced and discussed, but, of course, no definite action was taken, nor is it probable that any decisive steps will be taken in a matter of such vital importance until the whole subject has been most carefully...
...students of so general a nature that they will bear repetition to the advantage of all students favorably disposed to a practical view of their work. The care of the bodily health is of the first importance. More educated men fail of distinction through the want of bodily vigor than from any other cause. The high prizes in any of the professions are not to be won without exhausting labor. We hear much talk about genius. All this is very well in its way, but the most practical definition of genius is, extraordinary capacity for labor. No world-wide greatness...
...frame. With sound, sturdy, bodily health, one can not only labor mentally more hours in the twenty four, but can, while working, throw into his task a greater amount of intellectual force. The mind gathers impulse and force from the body whenever the latter is in high health and vigor. When the body is feeble and sickly, the mind is either checked and hampered in its impulses, or, attempting to ride them boldly forward, breaks down altogether. The habit of being beforehand with whatever a man undertakes is an important element of success. The only sure method of securing intellectual...
...recent defeat which the freshman eleven received at Andover seems to be having a very injurious effect on their prospects for success with Yale. The men are not playing with their old snap and vigor, while the interest in the game seems to be rapidly diminishing...
...debate originating in Mr. Adams' Phi Beta Kappa oration has steadily grown in vigor until now it has enrolled on either side the leading thinkers of the country. It seems to us that there is danger that in the heat of the discussion its true bearings should be lost to sight, and that in the minds of many there should rise the idea that college education and the value thereof was in some way called into question. However hot the debate may be, whatever arguments may be advanced, whichever side may eventually triumph, the great question of the advantages...