Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard has lost some of her best men since last year, the standard of track athletics in the other colleges has been distinctly increasing. There are in the team very few men who are natural winners; almost all have had to reach the position they now hold by the hardest training. When, then, the team goes down to New Haven and by good running wins the games from Yale, it is rather hard for the men to be greeted on their return to Cambridge with hardly a word of congratulation. The team did their best and this lack of recognition...
...this is too short a period for the men to do very much toward improving their speed, it is not too short for them to work themselves into the best of physical condition, and to get the idea firmly fixed in their minds that only by their very hardest efforts can they hope to keep the track athletic championship where it belongs...
...warningly. There has got to be some rapid improvement, if the nine wants to make a good showing against the school teams. We believe that there is good material among the candidates, and that hard practice will develop a good nine. But nothing can be done without the hardest of work, and if Ninety-five wants to do herself justice, and keep up the reputation of the freshman nines, it must settle right down to the most serious attention to work that it knows how to give...
...opponent. In the second round, Linder held off evidently not relishing Hunt's attacks which came in quick succession, but in the third round Linder took a most creditable and plucky brace. He seemed to wake up for the first time and the round that followed was the hardest and most exciting event of the afternoon. Both men rushed repeatedly and throughout the blows were very evenly distributed. Toward the end both men were more or less groggy and pretty well covered with blood. The decision of the judges was in favor of Hunt, who, taking the three rounds together...
...especially consider, the men who are really in earnest in their work. It is to be hoped that the German department will be able to offer some such courses next year. If given they should be given by the best men in the department. Conversational courses are perhaps the hardest kind to give, but given rightly they are invaluable to all serious students...