Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...baseball schedule which is announced this morning promises a season of unusual interest. The games as arranged this year will give the nine the best sort of training for the more important contests, and the unusual number of the latter will be an added incentive to hard and faithful work in preparation...
Johnson's life was one of hard and poverty-stricken labor. At the age of twenty-six he had married a woman of forty-eight who had no beauty and very little fortune. Johnson was besides encumbered by several pensioners, even poorer than he, whose misfortunes had excited his pity. "The Rambler," "The Lives of the Poets," and the Dictionary-finished in 1755 after a Jacobean struggle of seven years-had brought the doctor fame, but comparatively little money. In 1759, however, came a pension of three hundred pounds from the government and it is from the subsequent brighter days...
...Lathrop recommended that next year the football team play hard football only on alternate days, and that the period of practice be lengthened for the playing days, and the other afternoons be given to teaching singals and principles...
...meeting was that the faculty became firmly convinced that the offenders did not infringe the rule through ignorance, but thinking they could keep within the prescribed limits. Therefore it was decided that such men did not deserve the privilege of further representing the university. Although this rule seems hard at first, it is felt that in the end it will succeed in its purpose of raising the standard of amateur athletics. So that while it may injure the chances of successful athletic teams for the present, it will prove of lasting benefit to sports of all kinds...
With the work of yesterday afternoon the Columbia University oarsmen finished their first month in the long, hard training preparatory to their races in June next. Captain Prentice, who has done all the 'varsity coaching, and Albert Putnam '97, who has had complete charge of the freshmen, are well pleased at the showing made thus...