Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...curiously impotent spirit of fancied superiority. The political wrong-headedness of such men is quite as great as that of wholly uneducated men, and no people could be less trust-worthy as critics and advisers. The educated man who seeks to console himself for his own lack of the robust qualities to bring success in American politics by moaning over the degeneracy of the times, instead of trying to better them, by railing at the men who do the actual work of political life, instead of trying himself to do the work, is a poor creature...
...need of a power, greater than himself, to help him to be what he desires to be. Christ not only helps us in our own development, He helps us to be of service to others. We are too apt to be satisfied with polite unselfishness instead of the great, robust sacrifice which marks the true man. Christ gives us this power of sacrifice and inspires us with power to live great, clean, rich lives...
John Fiske '63, died at the Hawthorne Inn, East Gloucester, early on the morning of July 4, through exhaustion caused by the intense heat. He had apparently enjoyed his usual robust health until a few days previous to his death...
Dean Briggs asks if the enjoyment we wish to put into education as sufficiently robust, and also, granting we approve of an elective system in College, whether the secondary and grammer schools should follow in the same path...