Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...additional stimulus to hard work among the candidates, and ready support and encouragement throughout the college. Luce's position will be difficult to fill, but this is only a stronger reason for every man who has any ability in pitching to present himself as a candidate and make sure that it is not through any laziness or negligence of his that the nine may have no satisfactory pitcher next season. With so many positions which must be filled with new men, nothing but the greatest energy and enthusiasm among all ball players can give Harvard a chance for success this...
...whom the favors of life come unsought who appear to be independent of this law; but the spontaneous success of their undisciplined genius are never permanent or satisfying. To possess the spirit of renunciation is the first essential of true success. When Christ spoke of fasting we may be sure he meant something broad: to fast in the true sense of renunciation does not mean merely the giving up of the evils and unnecessary pleasures of life, but even the good things. There must be a capability to sacrifice the good for the better. With renunciation must come aspiration...
...material in the club is encouraging, and if faithful work is done by every member there can be little doubt of success. The most important duty for each member at present is to attend every rehearsal. The men need, more than anything else, practice in singing together. It is sure that, however energetic a leader and however much musical talent the club may have, unless the members each show their personal interest in the success of the organization by regular attendance at rehearsals, success will never be gained...
...However desirable it may be that this change should be made, we feel sure that a very large number of those who have given any attention to American colleges as a moral influence will wish it had been made by the faculty rather than by the overseers. That the faculty should be overborne on a matter of discipline by an outside body having no share in the management, is certainly calculated to aggravate the most serious defect of our collegiate system. Nothing does so much to prevent a "collegiate education" as it is called, in our day and generation, leaving...
...touched upon in the first editorial, is not especially original in thought, but all college men can read it with advantage. The blow struck at tutors and coaching is timely; and the vigorous treatment of the remarks of a gentlemen at the recent Dartmouth dinner will, we are sure, be read with considerable satisfaction by men at Cambridge...