Word: quiteness
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...usually just one thing that keeps a man down:--lack of determination, and resolve to finish what he starts. No exercise, and the habit of thinking things over in a cloud of smoke will continue to keep down his resolve and determination, and the point at which most men quit is usually that at which one more kick would put them across onto the winning side...
...more illustration bearing on the point but from a different angle, is this incident. In a repair gang of workers, the youngest apprentice had just quit work. "Public opinion" elected the next youngest employee to succed him in getting noonday milk for several workers. The young man in question performed the service with smiles and was obliged to "keep the change" sometimes as compensation. This milk vendor (or shall we say 100 percent worker?) was a Harvard student, but neither he nor his fellow workers remembered that at the time. CHAS. W. LYTLE. Director of Industrial Cooperation...
...hope of American participation at the League council table is at an end. Are we going to sit back, at a time when our help is most needed to assist in the reconstruction of Europe, and withhold that help?--and do nothing? It is not the American spirit to quit. And from a Harvard man who is now in Europe comes the statement of the true feeling which has crystallized abroad while our Senate continued to disagree over the Treaty...
...enough that the First was our model division. Together with the Second, it did more hard fighting than any other; it produced more good commanding and staff officers, notably General Summerall; it kept going, whether under fire or on the march, under conditions in which most units would have quit; and even in the matter of tactics, in the combination of artillery and infantry on the offensive, it was right in front of anything in either the American or French army. Was it "average" then...
...Trumbull, who will speak, is one of the assistant coaches of this year's team, and is himself a former All-American tackle. In 1915 he was elected captain of the University team after C. E. Brickley '15 had been forced to quit the gridiron on account of appendicitis...