Word: cramped
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...quantity of first-class work produced in the way of productive scholarship, and that no amount of second-class work can atone for failure in the college to produce this first-class work. A course of study is of little worth if it tends to deaden individual initiative and cramp scholars so that they only work in the ruts worn deep by many predecessors...
...said that this will cramp the suitable administration of the Union. The answer is that the Union is intended to serve all Harvard men, and that doing one's duty in a plain manner, -- even frugally if necessary--is better than the splendid doing of something else. That is clear as to individuals; to the uninitiated it seems equally true of a social club...
...results of the dashes were little more than mediocre. Clerk, who won the two-twenty, had just before run second in the quarter. Sprague, who won the hundred, was taken with a severe cramp just before the finish and will not be able to run again for some time...