Word: growing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...future Whitman has unmeasured hope. Leaning on the past, he hopes for great things in the future. The universe is a spot where we are placed to grow...
...students who thoroughly appreciate the need of system in gymnastic training. In these winter months when out-door exercise is difficult to obtain, men naturally depend upon the Gymnasium for the exercise that is necessary to keep in good bodily health. Many students wonder that they do not grow stronger after weeks of hard work in the gymnasium. Some find that instead of making them stronger and better their exercise makes them feel tired and listless in the evenings and unfits them for study. The reason for this is simply that they have not gone about it in the right...
...more than one-third of the College, are Massachusetts men. Boston boys grow up with the idea of making successful Harvard athletes as they know the social distinction at college this confers. New York men, although filling some of the clubs, furnish few athletes. Chicago has almost always representatives on some of the teams. Moreover, election to the clubs has been the reward of successful athletics. A great many of the members of 'varsity teams and crews have become club men chiefly through athletic success...
...spend their lives beneath the flag. That national spirit means more than a blind worship of the flag with us. When the band is assembled upon our flagships in China to play the national air as our flag is unfurled to the morning sun, every sailor's heart grows warm and sometimes his eyes grow dim, not because that flag represents a nation, but because justice and liberty, peace and rest, the purity and sacredness of his home dwell beneath its folds across...
Behind the bat, Williams, Trenchard and Titus are the candidates, with the odds in favor of Williams; but should Trenchard's arm, which was injured two years ago, grow stronger, it will be a nip and tuck race. Both men are in poor form and show a woful lack of snap; they need to bestir themselves in order to compare favorably with the other college catchers. In the pitching department there is a wealth of material. Bradley, providing his arm holds out, will do most of the pitching in the championship games. Altman will be called in should Bradley...