Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Corbin: "As for Mr. Atwill's performance, seldom has so big and complex a nature been presented with so perfect a blending of subtlety and vigor. Miss Cornell is as nearly perfect...
This change of opinion can certainly be attributed to the vigor and spirit with which the new rowing system has been installed. The days when five different types of stroke were being taught on the Charles, and when fall crew practice was less important than spring football have definitely passed, to the regret of none. The character of the winter training which comes to an end today is indicative of a new policy that is intended to develop available material into the finest possible crews...
Harvard jumped into the lead, 9-0, in the first quarter, and managed, to finish the half with a 17-9 lead, chiefly due to the fast playing of Malick. In the second half Colby played with renewed vigor and barely missed tying the Crimson score when Libby made his unsuccessful throw...
There seems scarcely a loop-hole out of the pitiful plight in which England finds herself. In the midst of such vigor Malthus offers no, remedy. There are possibilities in Swift's old cure for the starvation in Ireland. And yet it is only too probable that the English population would continue to recreate itself like the hydra-headed monster. To adopt the fatalistic attitude and let nature take its course would doubtless lead in a short time to such swarms that all Britain would be a vast human sardine-can. Yet there is a gleam of hope like...
...older than he feels has perhaps never been better exemplified than by President Eliot. Instead of retiring at sixty into a sommolent old age, he has to this very day kept as intellectually active as any youth--and he has kept so by the catholicity and vigor of his interests. In this he has made himself a great name--our foremost example of the American Citizen. And President Eliot is to receive such signal recognition on March 20. He deserves all praises and honor not only from Harvard men but from the whole country...