Word: grit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...happened to cause such a complete inequality between the two crews. The trouble soon became apparent. No. 3, in his efforts to secure a good start, had unshipped his seat and was doing his best to row on the slides. Any one who has rowed can realize what true grit and determination Sanford must have had to have rowed out the two miles, and all praise is due to such a plucky man. On the other hand it is with some regret that we reflect that if he had stopped rowing and held up his hand at the moment when...
Harvard has grit and enterprise. She has athletic bodies as well as vigorous brains, and Boston has money enough to back her favorite boys and give them every assistance needed. Let Captain Keyes go ahead and begin to train his crew at once, let him pick his men for coolness and endurance, and then let him say what he wants in order to make a winning crew, and the people will see to it that every aid shall be furnished...
...they scored actually less than our team did although their defensive game was much more effective. Taking this into account if we were able to place our best team in the field we would have no need to despair of success. As it is, nothing but indomitable spirit and grit, can save us and the best wishes of the entire college go with the team that our men may be equal to the emergency...
...comments as follows on a letter from a correspondent touching the effect on the condition of the American universities of the small pay received by the professors: He contends that a man who has the stuff of a good professor in him, or, as "N. N." calls it, "the grit of spontaneous scholarship," will not allow the smallness of his salary to "cool his ardor or check his enthusiasm," and he points to the vigor and industry of the German professors as showing how little effect poverty really has or ought to have on the quality of university teaching. Unfortunately...
...respective victories at the last two meetings. Chances, during the latter part of the week, have been reckoned about even by the knowing ones. '83 has been slightly the favorite, though '86 had a great deal of confidence in the skill of their anchor and in the "bull-dog grit" of other members of the team. '83, however, had the advantage of a heavy anchor. The teams, both of which had been practising faithfully through the week, were made up as follows: '83, H. Lilienthal, T. C. Bachelder, W. Fuller, J. H. B. Easton (anchor); '86, G. C. Adams...