Word: warms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Although it is still a little soft, it is better than the other track, and the former will be used from now on. Only the straightaway and the track along the western side of the bowl are in proper condition as yet, but a few more days of this warm weather or a warm rain will get the frost out of the ground, so that the entire track can be put into shape...
...minutes walk of most of the university buildings. At Harvard the students are scattered over a large city. The village lends itself to the democracy and familiarity that are quite impossible in the metropolis. On the other hand the institution across the way (for which I have a warm spot in my heart) demonstrates democracy after the big, free-and-easy manner of the West, and it is but natural that the democracy of Harvard be governed by the nervous and restrained East. I was indeed pleasantly surprised to find Harvard just as democratic in its way as the institution...
...obscure. You will see that it would be troublesome. Besides, you both agree that you are fighting for the same thing, a purse. My advice is that you stop at once before either one has suffered the humiliation of defeat. You will thus, quite naturally, form a warm and lasting friendship cemented in mutual confidence and esteem...
...extremely beautiful in color. Mr. Berenson believes that it bears favorable comparison with the famous Arezzo frescoes, and of the color he said, he should be at a loss to point to any other. Italian work that is of a color at once so powerful and yet neither warm nor cold, but fused in a manner soft as harmonious...
With the coming of cold weather the temptation to sit by a warm fire, to hibernate, is greater than in the spring or summer. Yet, if we realize the opiate consequence of such laziness, we should bestir ourselves. As Bacon wrote, "Use fasting and full eating, but rather full eating; watching and sleep, but rather sleep; sitting and exercise, but rather exercise, and the like; so shall nature be cherished, and yet taught masteries...