Word: pale
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...bleachers blue turn pale with fright...
...President Lowell spoke on intercollegiate contests as a means of college solidarity. "There is no more valuable habit in life that any man can acquire than the habit of winning; and athletics is a means to that end. But there are many men not on the crew, and many pale faces are seen about college." The habit of proper exercise is not as general as it ought to be. We are too much in the habit of thinking that it takes a specialist to enter athletics. This is not so. "You have heard me say that I want to bring...
...bleachers blue turn pale with fright...
...moral struggle, and a savage fight march in perfect order to an artistically vague ending. A fit companion to "Pete La Farge" is "The Morrigan." Mr. Schenck piles on lurid horrors with the ungrudging hand of love. Beside his sketch, Mr. Proctor's clever "Page from Gorky" seems pale and ineffective. After the reader has shuddered at "the great black raven" flapping slowly across the sky in Mr. Schenck's closing paragraph, he should take W. C. G. 's mild moralizing upon "The Dilletante" as an antidote...
...individual scores follow: HARVARD. PALE FACE. Higginson, 45 Edwards, 45 Morse, 44 Dagget, 44 Hauthaway, 42 Kirkwood, 44 Gilman, 38 Charles, 40 Brewer, 37 Burns, 39 Totals...