Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Ellery H. Clark L. S., won the individual all-round amateur athletic championship of the United States from eight competitors at Bergen Point on August 5. Clark won six firsts out of ten events and was at no time hard pressed for first place...
...July, Ernest J. Rice '00, of Malden, Mass., died at Manchester, N. H., from the effects of a sun-stroke received while on his wheel. Rice was a conscientious student and will always be remembered as a bright and hard working scholar...
...football season has begun in a hopeful way for the 'varsity eleven. As usual there is plenty of good material to choose from; hardly ever has it been otherwise in that respect. But in addition the coaches are taking every possible precaution not to make the one great mistake of last year in working the men too hard at first and thus rendering them liable to injuries. If this policy of making the physical condition of the team of equal importance with its football skill is only carried out through the whole season we may be spared this year...
Another gratifying circumstance in this connection is the doing away with summer practice and the putting off of all hard work until the beginning of the college year. This step makes football more of a sport and less of a business for the men and is especially desirable, since it is doubtful whether any real benefit was ever derived from summer practice. It also speaks well for the harmony of opinion which exists between the football management and the athletic committee and for the system of undergraduate representation in that body...
...commissioned aide de camp, with rank of lieutenant colonel, on the staff of Gen. Meade, then commanding the Army of the Potomac. His gallant and meritorious services were officially recognized, and at the close of the war he returned to his home with a reputation for bravery won by hard service...