Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...late on the part of many of the colleges to have the intercollegiate meet of May 29 and 30 serve as the qualifying games for the Eastern college athletes. The college men are trained to do their best in this meet and there is great danger of their being stale a week later, thus depriving the American team of some of their best men and lessening materially their chances for success. Since the larger part of the team is usually composed of college athletes, there is reason to suppose that this proposed change will be seriously considered by the committee...
...many of our recitation-rooms the air during recitations is so stale that long before the end of the hour the classes become drowsy and uncomfortable. This is rarely the fault of inadequate ventilation, but is in most cases due to indifference on the part of undergraduates. Men who despise personal uncleanliness will sit in a poisonous atmosphere and watch unconcerned some enemy of the race cut off all hope by fastening down the last window. In winter the desire for warm air, however thick it may be, has a superficial excuse, but in mild weather only the confirmed poison...
...training table has an even more definite value than that of providing good food. It tends to stimulate sociability and good fellowship, two important factors in producing team play. It is all very well to say that the men must eventually "go stale from having the sport served up as a necessary conversational accompaniment to every meal," but there is a far more undesirable state of affairs, wherein an athlete, eating at a private table, is plied with questions in regard to the team, and, as the centre of an inquisitive group, is never allowed to forget his athletic connections...
...what you make it. It can deliver a man at the end, blankly unaware of the high things among which he has been moving, a vacant idler, or a stupid book-man, a heavy-witted athlete, a timid nonentity, or a snob already stifled in the stale air of exclusiveness; or it can send him out free of the great brotherhood of educated men, stirred with the challenge of life, the life, of ideas and no less the life...
...band, "My love at the window" will always stand. "The Dutch Companie" the best will remain, "Fair Harvard" will sound in noble refrain, The "rudder" will always be shown, in song, To that crew to which none of us care to belong. Here, deathless that hymn which years cannot stale Which evokes the warm hope of "to-something-with Yale." And the later tunes they'll warmly greet - "To the Crimson, Glory," and "Up the Street." Here thoughts will cluster of comrades dead, Of some strong, leal heart, of a noble head, Of a short, clean life that stirred...