Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...qualities of courage, perseverance, loyalty, and a high sense of honor." This is a sentiment which must commend itself to all earnest, thinking men. It is undoubtedly the true way to look at athletics; and to reach this result, Mr. Wendell contends, the athlete must begin with a thorough respect for and appreciation of his sport; and he must especially avoid all tricks and underhand practices. That part of the article which relates to the college faculty and to "professionalism" is especially worthy of study, inasmuch as there has been so much discussion on the subject at Harvard of late...
...paper on "Keat's Poems" shows the result of thorough study on the subject. The criticisms are careful, brief and to the point. The quotations are happily selected. It is altogether a very interesting article...
...physiology? None. Doubtless a few of the athletic men know something about hygiene as far as training is concerned; and I believe we have had a few things called emergency lectures in times past. But I think that every man should have the chance to take one good thorough course in physiology before he leaves college. This matter is something that affects every man. One of England's greatest philosophers of to day places this kind of knowledge as the most fundamental and important of all. It should not be confined to those who make medicine a profession. If people...
...either our team has been materially weakened by the absence of some of its best men, or the opposing team has been changed very decidedly in its make-up, from the games in which it has played with Princeton or Harvard. There has never before been such a thorough feeling of doubt as to the abilities of an athletic team. The fact that there will be two important games this year instead of one, has added much to the interest, and has also added much to the doubts of our success...
...themes are pithy and to the point-because the instructor gives his real opinion in a few words, of poor and hasty work. Is the writer of this bitter invective so thin-skinned that a few short, sharp criticisms penetrate to his very marrow? If so, it proves the thorough efficiency of the instructor; if not, Mr. "English 12" has no right to complain. The instructors at Harvard take the students to be more than mere school-boys, who require to be humored and lightly dealt with, lest they "go home and tell their Pa!" Perhaps it might suit...