Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...compete successfully with Princeton and Yale, who have adopted the same system, there must be a hearty response to the increased opportunity for successful competition by the undergraduates. Trials for the three upper classes which are still open will be held this evening. Any man who is not afraid to say what he thinks and why he thinks it, whether or not he has debated before, should avail himself of the opportunity to gain the valuable experience which the class teams offer...
...educational work. Believing the dissemination of learning to be the primary duty of that institution, its aim is to reach as many people as its equipment and conditions will permit, and each year sees these growing as on increasing student body presses for admission. Columbia at least is not afraid of size, and the community which it serves is the gainer for that confidence...
...after-dinner speech, said: "That applause warms the cockles of my heart. I don't know what the cockles of the heart are, but it warms them." Every player and every Harvard man has got cockles of his heart that can be warmed by applause. Don't be afraid of what the other fellow thinks because you are enthusiastic, but show your own interest-get the ball rolling. You don't need organized cheering, but it doesn't do a bit of harm to have some leader out in front to start the applause. We do not want...
...book" deals with the adventures of newly married Felix, who is singularly bashful and much afraid of bandits. Through a characteristically comic opera-esque chain of circumstances, he is forced to impersonate his soldier brother who is leading an expedition against the robbers. Needless to say all tangles are straightened out in the fifty seconds before the final curtain...
Perhaps more men fail to realize their aspirations during their college career on account of the lack of these very qualities, than for any other reason,--men who are clever, who are earnest and energetic, who are capable and ambitious,--yet men who are afraid of forcing their own personality on those who are unacquainted with them. To urge these men to reap the benefit of a few courses in public speaking, might seem latitudinal,--were it not for the fact that these men seldom take such courses...