Word: vigorating
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...perennial issue of equal suffrage is now being discussed with unequaled vigor. The ballot has been gradually extended to a majority of western states and to one state east of the Mississippi. The President of the republic and a former President has declared in favor of its extension to all women; and the question is to be settled, temporarily if in the negative, permanently if in the affirmative, in several more states, including Massachusetts, on November 2. There are many persons, whether in favor of or opposed to the movement, who believe that equal suffrage is inevitably coming; and certainly...
...defined notions of what these institutions stand for and the quality of their human product. Harvard for a number of years, has been thought of definitely as a university not exactly bloodless, but at least less boisterous than some of its neighbors. It has been regarded as cloistral, its vigor somewhat stifled by--er--snobbishness...
Football is in a bad way when at the spring meeting not enough men report to make up two full teams. Yet this is just what happened Friday. The meeting called to start work for the 1915 season with vigor and enthusiasm, was a fizzle. A handful of men, mostly Freshmen, attended...
...service--and the calls were many--they gave thought and labor without stint, in one of the most trying cases of discipline of recent years, performing without flinching and with finest public spirit a necessary, but highly repellent, duty in our College community. Earnest, clear visioned, strong in the vigor of their youth, forgetful of self, they sought but a single end, the promotion of the welfare of Harvard College...
...common nuisance is the man who can't play the piano but who does. Almost any night he may be found in the Living Room of the Union, filling the air with chords which are more noteworthy for their vigor than for their accuracy. When once he starts, all study is at an end; the fresh air is the only refuge from his onslaught. Such a man is cousin to the magazine mangler and blood brother of the noisy card player. Society, in college and out, tolerates such men because they apparently get some innocent happiness out of such...