Word: great
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pasadena pageants, "The Victory Tournament." A military spirit pervaded the day. Parades of soldiers, long lines of be-garlanded guns comprised the major part of the morning exercises, while in the afternoon a Mare Island team of marines struggled manfully but in vain against an eleven from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
Passadena offers a royal welcome to her visitors. The evenings before the great game are filled with merriment and sport for the eastern guests. On the evening after the game a ball is held in the Maryland Hotel. Win or lose, no team ever comes away from Pasadena disappointed, for the western spirit of hospitality pervades the atmosphere and the qualities of real sportsmanship are recognized on every hand...
England has a right to expect of us at least as good treatment as we received at her hands during the Civil War. Although, at that time, the happiness of a large number of her laborers and the prosperity of a great industry depended on peace in America, England refrained from recognizing the Southern Confederacy. In the present crisis we must play fair with Britain. England best understands the Irish questions; let the decision be hers...
Courage, alertness of mind, strength of body, staying power, loyal devotion-nobody doubts these qualities in some athlete who makes the great adventure, wins prestige for his college, and gains the admiring interest of untold millions of newspaper readers, and hears the wild applause of the thousands who see the great game. But I've often asked myself whether it ever occurs to the athlete to think that it is precisely these qualities-in a word, downright sand- that go to the making of the great scholar...
...great scholar Whitney was, indeed the greatest American scholar of his century. He was Professor of Sanskrit at Yale for forty years, and one of the men upon whose brilliant achievements was founded the prestige of Yale...