Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...text the words from lsiah, "He planted an ash tree and the rain did nourish it." In the course of his remarks Dr. Books said that in college life men are too apt to be obsequious to the rich and popular fellow and to overlook or slight the brave, earnest man who happens to be poor or unpopular. A man's life can be developed fully only by considering his supernatural part, by maintaming toward rich and poor a sincere, christion demeanor. Then only, with careful regard to its nourish men, can the tree of man's life, planted...
...professional" stroke. Her crew, be it said, was deemed so strong as to earn the appellation of the "Yale giants," while Harvard's was not only unusually light, but, with two exceptions, was composed of men who had never before sat in a 'varsity boat. Save with the brave and meager minority who believed in the new regime, up to a week before the race Yale's success was a foregone conclusion. The race, as one disappointed wearer of the blue expressed it, was a "procession." Yale, vulgarly speaking, carried the bucket. Harvard jumped into the lead the moment...
...government of Turkey is to blame for this decadence, and not the people. They are still as brave and enduring as of old, and possess the same excellent qualities as their ancestors. These virtues, however, are useless without civilization, and internal reforms are necessary, if the nation is to maintain its independent existence...
...holiday on the anniversary of his birth. Was it not within a few miles of this town that the first shots were fired which meant that the colonies of America were to be free and independent? Are we not within sight of the monument erected over the spot where brave men fought and fell at Bunker Hill? If this is Harvard conservatism, fit upon it! Where, we ask, is Harvard patriotism? For a lack of the sentiment of patriotism in the authorities of a college situated in New Mexico there might be some excuse; for a lack of such sentiment...
...opinion show that Harvard can win as well as lose; or will the old lackadaisical spirit-occasioned, we believe, by a morbid fear of criticism-influence those who ought to offer their services and prevent them from making themselves known? If the new students of this year will be brave enough to care nothing for the feelings which certain badly bred but omnipresent persons are rude enough to show, then we may never hear again that remark which has become now extremely trite, "Oh! They don't know how to play foot-ball at Harvard...