Word: vital
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...races at New London. Let every man of brains and energy feel it his duty to oppose in every possible way this growing lethargy and indifference and, worse than all, snobbishness. What is a man does assert himself too forcibly or is a trifle "fresh?" It is not a vital fault. Why suppress him? It is not always the blase or the brainless however that bray: "What an ass!" Many a man while secretly admiring independence and push, joins in with the popular chorus against the offender. Few undergraduates have any idea how childish and inane this spirit of repression...
...grand fault of freshman teams is an over-confidence which, prophesying victory, thinks superfluous the careful and minute preparation success demands. Anything then that tends to educate men in athletics or to cultivate interest in them is of vital importance to the freshmen as a body, as a counterpoise to the above mentioned error of over confidence, and individuals would do well to bear in mind that the training they can get by trying for their crew may serve them well later, when, being older, rougher and more fully developed, their ambition may be the 'Varsity crew...
...deemed to be of the most vital importance to the welfare of foot-ball and of your association that the following amendments should be embodied in the constitution of the association...
...spite of these charges to the contrary, have been honest in all their negotiations and decisions. Yale has simply taken the ground that the question of withdrawing from a league which embodied many pleasant relations and which had its advantages, and forming another league, was a question of vital importance, and one which should not have a hasty decision. As matters have finally been decided and arranged there is every reason to anticipate a most prosperous season for the new league, in which the standard of college ball playing will be advanced in no small degree and all the games...
...helpful limitations which may be influential over the persistent adhesion of our student to his chosen line of work. To establish onward-leading habits, therefore, should be one of the chief objects in devising limitations of election. The habit wanted is the habit of spontaneous attack. Prescription deadened this vital habit. Election invigorates the springs of action. I believe study at Harvard is to-day more interested, energetic, and persistent than it has ever been before. But that is no ground for satisfaction. A powerful college must forever be dissatisfied. Each year it must address itself anew to strengthening...