Word: vigorating
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...savage virtues, really destructive to the mental as well as to the physical powers and not essential to true manliness. The physical and moral powers lead on eventually to the happiest and most serviceable life in after years. And for happiness and for serviceableness a man must possess vigor, purity, honor...
...Wolcott was next introduced and said in brief: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Harvard College have lived in amity and mutual obligation for two hundred and sixty years. You bring with you youth and vigor. On her part, this commonwealth, with Bunker Hill, Lexington Common and Plymouth Rock, speaks to your hearts and the hearts of all Americans as do few of her sister states. Whatever success you win must in part look back to Cambridge and to the commonwealth...
...early twenties could speak, I think they would say: "Be not too slow to put on the responsibilities of manhood." I know that youth is a time of happiness, but I think you will find that the happiness of manhood is the real happiness of life. Put zeal and vigor into your work, as did those young soldiers who won fame for Harvard University and bequeathed their names...
...events acknowledged imitation, and equally candid treatment would substitute the title "Anthony Hope" for "Some Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them," which is contributed by R. Clapp. The latter is a brief episode successfully worked up, and the author has succeeded in catching something of Hope's freshness and vigor, which partially atones for lack of originality...
...surprising as it was overwhelming. The team felt confident of winning when they left for New Haven, but the hard races in the Pennsylvania games and the time trials on Tuesday seemed to take all the speed out of them. The men on the whole had no snap or vigor, and their opponents were very evidently in much better physical condition...