Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...life sanely and sees it whole possesses true courage. It is a necessary quality in the development of every race. In its primitive form courage is only brutal, but it is this brute force and brute courage from which higher and more refined virtues spring. Brute courage reaches a certain point where it does not satisfy; it must be allied to faith. There are several checks upon the development of true courage in this country today. One is the easily won position which we have among the nations few of whom have gained theirs without years of struggle...
...certain carelessness and negligence which appeared in the writings of the leading men of this period brought about in 1850 a reaction which came at a most propitious time, inasmuch as the best propitious time, inasmuch as the best work of the romanticists has been completed. The two leading men of this reaction were Baudelaire and Leconte de Lisle. The latter is essentially an objective poet and his poetry is noticeable lacking in any personal lyric strain. He is a poet philosopher and something of an historian. Baudelaire maintained that inspiration consists of work and he opposed the romanticists' idea...
...improved a great deal during the season, and the men are now playing well together. Gymnasium practice has been held every day when the ice has not been in condition, and the men are in the best possible shape. As compared with experienced players, the Harvard team shows certain faults of which the following are the most apparent. The forwards do not follow their opponents back quickly enough to be of much assistance in defending their goal; they hesitate too long before shooting for goal, thus allowing the opposing defense to form; and their stopping and starting is much...
...other libraries which divide the whole collection into fields--as history, philosophy, etc. The authors are grouped by centuries and then alphabetically. Elsewhere they are scattered. The treatment of biography is also much better in the Harvard Library than elsewhere, as the statesmen relating to the history of a certain country are placed with that history, instead of being grouped by themselves...
...current number of the Lampoon is one of the best that has appeared this year. Its most striking feature is the great improvement in the illustrations, some of which are extremely well executed. The only long article is "Around Cambridge with the Expert Guy," which describes rather cleverly certain amusing features of College life. The seven faculty valentines are also, with possibly one exception, extremely good hits. Other features of the number are the "By the Way" and the editorial on "Valentines...