Word: hards
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...necessity to curtail schedules, no necessity to deplore the natural tendency of mankind to test the strength and skill of one body of men against another; but there is a necessity to impress upon the athletes that their first duty is to their studies, and that participation in a hard athletic season is no excuse for an extended tour of recuperation. The opportunity is seized merely as an easy chance for a vacation, the uselessness of which is already realized by many of our most active athletic competitors. It is high time to give up selfish motives in the interest...
...hard contested game yesterday afternoon, the Junior lacrosse team defeated the Seniors by the score...
With only eight days of actual practice on the Charles left before the Annapolis race, the University eight was put through a short but hard drill yesterday afternoon. The river was very rough, and the wind dead ahead upstream, but Coach Wray demanded a high stroke. On the first sprint the stroke was rapidly put up to 33 to the minute, and in the stretch extending from below the Stillman Infirmary to the boathouse it was raised to 36. The crew showed even better form with a high stroke than with a low, although it tended naturally to clip...
...short address in the Union last night Mayor Hibbard of Boston outlined the present political conditions of the city and what he believed to be the best method for their betterment and reform. The Boston elections, he said, coming as they do in December, place the mayor in a hard position for immediate remedies, as his petitions for improvements and general city management are due almost at once, before he realizes what is most necessary; this, together with the enormous amount of improvement needed, is responsible in part for the present situation in Boston...
With President Eliot go the best wishes of the University. He is going on a hard journey; one which would tax any man's strength; but one which he is undertaking with his characteristic boldness for the University's sake. He is carrying into the West the true academic spirit of Harvard, appealing to our graduates and to the scholars of the western states, and through them spreading the reputation of the great educational system, of which he was chief founder. It is partly through the efforts of the alumni that a larger western representation may be secured...