Word: vigorating
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Harvard is not composed of "quitters". Our substitute team, fighting against one of the finest elevens in the country, demonstrated that most clearly on Saturday. Why then do not the students enter into the spirit of the games with more vigor? Our team has coaching second to none; every man on the team, as Captain Fisher has said, is a fighter; but if, at the outset of an important game, any player makes a mistake and the opposing team seems to "get the jump" for a moment, the student body seems to lose heart and to desert the team. Thereafter...
...dash, and was not up to standard in defensive play. Deming punted well, and the touchdowns were made by consistent gaining. In the next game Yale defeated Holy Cross by the score of 12 to 0. Yale improved to some extent in versatility of attack, but played with little vigor. Many forward passes were successfully executed by both teams. Corey and Deming did the scoring, which, however, was by straight playing...
...Harvard Monthly has a right to congratulate itself on its twenty-five years. In some of these years it has had exclusive conceptions of literature; in some it has overrated artificial niceties of thought and style and has underrated of straightforward vigor; in all or nearly straightforward vigor; in all, or nearly all, it has now and then seemed pretentious to persons who have been unable to take it so seriously as the editors have done. The fact remains that, for these twenty-five years as a whole, it has been the most earnest and the best fulfillment...
...expression that would make his story live. The descriptions--not by the old prospector--are overdrawn. The reader balks a little at the "clear scarlet sky" as other readers protested at Coleridge's sky with its "peculiar tint of yellow green." H. K. Moderwell's "By Night" has a vigor that makes one wish for more. "The Last Edition," by Wm. C. Green is an admirably told incident of the conflict between principle and financial need, principle winning less blatantly than is usual. "College Kodaks" are true but unpleasant, therefore belying the title since one tries to make permanent with...
...whole, the number is praise worthy as a presentation of material clearly representative of undergraduate thought on a subject of immediate interest. The weakness of the stories is offset by the vigor of the verse; and Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez's poem alone is enough to give the number distinction