Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great deal of enthusiasm. He said that every man who enters Harvard becomes a part of a noble, historical society; that if he approaches the life in the proper spirit he cannot think of self only. He has a part to play in an organization, the common honor to sustain; he should, therefore, think of the life here in two aspects, for self and for Harvard college...
...course, in which proficiency counts as much as success in mathematics or in the languages. At Amherst College athletics are put upon this broad and high basis, and the result is that every Amherst graduate is turned out a well developed young man, with a physical organization which will sustain him in his intellectual work. But the majority of men in middle life today were not brought up on athletics in their youth. They did not ride bicycles or enjoy the activity and spirit of the saddle, and they have never done much to keep a sound mind...
...society should not be revived or a new one for the same purpose, started. The spring is the time of year when the most work is done and I am sure there are enough men in Harvard University who are interested in photography and who would sustain a society if started, to make it worth while for some man to take the lead and call a meeting of those interested in the matter. There is no reason why a club could not be formed and got into good running order before the spring recess, and if interest enough were shown...
...Atlantic Monthly for March is fully up to the standard of the recent numbers in the variety and interest of its articles. The serials, "Passe Rose," by A. S. Hardy, and "The Tragic Muse," by Henry James, fully sustain the interest of their first chapters. American history occupies a large share of the number. John Fiske contributes a paper on "Ticonderoga, Bennington and Oriskany," and Frank G. Cook, one on "Some Colonial Lawyers and their Work." Treating in more recent events is an article entitled "Personal Reminisences of William H. Seward," by his private secretary, Samuel J. Barrows...
...there are any men in college who can play lacrosse at all they are earnestly requested to come out and try for the eleven. As soon as the examinations are over the captain will put the candidates to a vigorous training, and every effort will be made to sustain the reputation which lacrosse has so nobly held for so many years...