Word: spurred
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...other fields he has been no less prominent. It is hard to conceive of Harvard without him, but we can take comfort in the knowledge that his influence will remain after him, and that the memory of his deeds will spur his followers on to even greater endeavors. To him--as preceptor, administrator, citizen, and friend--the full love, gratitude and admiration of the university is given. May the years to come to attended with the success and happiness which have been his lot in the past half-century...
...sympathy from graduates. This item is the wholesale and unfriendly criticism of the Harvard coaches, appearing in newspapers the day after the game, and written as a rule by old players whose right to criticise history does not entirely justify. Doubtless only a deep interest in our team could spur industry into writing so many columns. But at best, comments to appear on Sunday morning must obviously be written under the stress of a defeat on Saturday. Ill-considered, destructive criticism in public prints, besides shocking our sense of loyalty due men who have done their best...
...other respects the Harvard team was tried and found wanting. A general condemnation of the eleven would be as unjust as it is unwarranted, but to say that the team as a whole came up to reasonable expectations would be to wander far from the truth. It required the spur of an opponent's touchdown to a waken the team to a fraction of its potential strength, and to bring victory out of defeat. Even then Harvard was twice held for downs within a few feet of the goal line...
...Miles in a Yacht", R. Arthur; Disraeli's Works, 20 volumes; "The Debtor", M. E. W. Freeman; Goethe's Samtliche Werke, 14 volumes; "The Story of Brussels", E. Gilliat-Smith; "The Law Breakers", R. Grant '73; Hebbel's Samtliche Werke, 12 volumes; Keller's Samtliche Werke, 10 volumes; "The Spur", G. B. Lancaster; "Sir Walter Scott", A. Lang; "A Memoir of Jane Austin", J. E. A. Leigh; "Red Saunders' Pets", H. W. Phillips; "Evolution, the Master-Key", C. W. Saleeby; "The Struggle for Self-Government", L. Steffens; Storm's Sammtliche Werke, 8 volumes; "Fenwick's Career", Mrs. Humphrey Ward...
...Mott will preside, and the speakers will include Rev. G. A. J. Ross, of Cambridge, England, Rev. C. C. Hall, D.D., of the Union Theological Seminary, Mr. R. C. Spur, of New York City, and Rev. A. P. Stokes, Jr., Secretary of Yale University...