Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...electrical paper reports a new device for aiding base ball umpires in their arduous duties, An underground wire forms a circuit with all the bases. When the base runner touches the plate, an electric bell rings in a small tower near the umpire's position. It is to be hoped that this device will be fully tested this season, and, if found useful, adopted all over the country. It will be a grand thing if, in course of time, an umpire can have all his duties performed by electricity; and if the inventor of this noble plan could only find...
...impossible for the managers to go to each man separately and dun him for his subscriptions. The management hopes, therefore, that the men who owe money to the university crew will take this opportunity of paying, as it will greatly assist the treasurer in his duties which are particularly arduous at this time of the year. As over a thousand dollars have yet to be paid, we earnestly hope that each and every subscriber to the university crew will see to it that his subscription is paid promptly and in full...
...appears to be in a tumult. The students have held a mass meeting, have addressed the trustees and have put forth a circular letter. Unfortunately for them their troubles do not seem to be confined to the athletic resolves. Widespread espionage, exercised throughout the college and town, and an arduous system of examinations, recently introduced, figure quite as prominently as athletics. However much we felt oppressed by the premature and hasty interference of the faculty in athletics, we have never been, and do not expect to be, harassed by any prying inquiries into our private affairs by that body...
...class to do, and that is, to make their appointments at once and by getting through with their sittings as soon as possible, to facilitate the work of the photographs and to enable the photograph committee to finish this work successfully and expeditiously. The duties of this committee are arduous and thankless at best, but they can be rendered much less irksome if each member of the class does promptly the little that is required...
...different colleges and preparatory schools, it does not seem amiss to call attention to another point which bears directly upon the future orgaization and success of the various college teams, - the picking out of the proper material for positions on the representative elevens, nines and eighths. Hitherto this arduous and by no means agreeable duty has fallen to the lot of the captains elected by the several classes. He it is who, in a large measure, selects and appoints men fit in his estimation to do credit to the college in the athletic field, and he holds the power...