Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...criticized for her good; quite to the contrary. We only ask that criticism come from real, deep thought and from knowledge of the majority and not from individual notions. We are sorry that Mr. Stearns had to listen to "bar-room or pool-room gossip, given additional vigor by quotations from the classics." We wish now that someone who knows what undergraduate conversation and habits generally are would step forward and praise rather than confess and condemn...
...tedious hours of signal drill and dummy scrimmage kept the University eleven at a heavy grind on Soldiers Fields until late Yesterday afternoon. Although fear of injury prevented hard scrimmage, the practice was not lacking in vigor and life, the coaches proving unusually exacting...
...Tigers were at a loss how to meet it. Wilson, an extra ordinarily heavy man for the quarter back position, fully lived up to the reputation he has recently been building for himself, frequently getting away for long gains after receiving punts, and running the team with snap and vigor. Yale also showed a reversal of form in its fierce and sure talking, very different from the hesitating variety much in evidence hitherto...
...Justification of Athletic Leadership" maintains that "the prominent men in College are athletes because they are leaders and not leaders because they are athletes." The writer's earnestness and vigor make their way; but his sentences are uncomfortable: "The ideal position of athletics in collegiate life is not necessarily that of subordinate interests, in the sense that studies should occupy an undue proportion of the student's time, but that of being correlative to filling in the spaces which study leaves open, and supplying a stimulus fully as necessary to the body as scholastic exercises to the mind...
...arise as well as the problem of commercialism. To intercollegiate athletes who are accustomed to look upon these matters as pastimes primarily this elaborate system of public athletic education will perhaps seem a little overdone. The relation between the movements which seems to be very popular, and the remarkable vigor now being displayed by France in various other lines--philosophy and international politics for example--may not be overlooked...