Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...valuable years from now as an admirable expression of the undergraduate feeling toward the reform of football by the authorities. "The Cruise of the Scholarship" is cleverly done, and the verse is excellent. "Victor and Vanquished" would be better were it not for a suggestion of those heroic bits in "Pieces for Recitation" which afford so much of the material for grammar school declamation...
Wigglesworth, in a heroic resolve to take up a new life, has thrown away his cigarette case, which has his name engraved upon it. This has been found by James Christopher Lovewater, a missionary on his way to Japan. Lovewater meets the lawyer Smith who takes the possession of the cigarette case as proof that the fortune which he has to bestow should go to Lovewater. The latter, now refunded, takes the same ship with the Lifters and Wigglesworth to Japan. Owing to various complications Wigglesworth is arrested by the Marquis Hari Kari, after the party has arrived in Japan...
...thoroughly agree that "if we are to face our dormitory situation manfully we must prepare to take heroic measures." If matters are wrong now because of it it is probable that they will be still further wrong with each year in which we hesitate and temporize. The dormitory situation must be met manfully. But let us first come to a very candid understanding as to what the "dormitory situation" is; and as we have all spent some time at Cambridge and have a common foundation of data obtained from experience and personal contact, let us not befog the discussion with...
...would destroy that condition of affairs under which men are accidentally thrown 'into personal contact at the outset of their college life almost entirely, so far as concerns the formation of new personal ties, upon the general basis of their comparative money allowances. I believe that Harvard should take heroic measures to end the unfortunate situation by which walls of inertia are built upon untrue foundations between groups of men in the same University. The only effective cure would be to have all dormitories in Cambridge equipped and managed in such a way, that the standard of dormitory living...
...names of Grenfell and of Labrador now mean little, and to them I would say that this is a precious opportunity, not only to increase their knowledge of our continent, but to enlarge their human sympathies. Dr. Grenfell is first of all a man, a man of the eternal heroic type; and merely to get the impression which his personality unconsciously gives one is an inspiration. WILLIAM JAMES...