Word: wave
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wave lengths of Electricity...
...house showered her with crimson roses, one flung by every boy-Harvard's own colors, breathing in rose-breath Harvard's good will ! - And where was the grand, concentrated Harvard cheer, that should have spoken farewell? And why did the orchestra crash "Fair Harvard," and the conductor wave an appealing baton to absolutely silent and unresponsive hearts and throats? Those of us who remember Harvard boys when their blood ran crimson and ran swift, did not recognize the genus that in irreproachable claw-hammers and faultless ties patted well-gloved hands together in rythmic applause that night. Harvard boys...
...unable to compete with the charm of his eloquence. It was like a parlor chat and yet it completely disarmed his hearers of their objections. No one ever lived who knew better the value of the short sentence and the seemingly modest preparation for his argument. "Only the indolent wave of the ocean can parallel one of his powerful rolling sentences." Like Milton, he gave many particulars and was never vague...
...student has a part to play in the winning and that that part is to keep out of his own mind and out of his own words everything that savors of doubt and lack of interest. Individual opinion and conjecture should sink out of sight below a great wave of hope and determination. Each one of us should see before him the picture of the game, the final struggle of the men who have faithfully served us this fall and every spark of manly feeling that exists here should be fanned to a ruddy glow by enthusiasm and loyalty...
...fine sense of humor, the affectionate fidelity to the past and its ties; nothing had changed in him to the last. When last I saw him .... I could imagine that, he labored under his dispensations as a good ship in a storm. burying his head at times under a wave, but rising to it, shaking off the weight, and keeping...