Word: herculean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Krogness '21, in the high jump and also possibly in the hurdles. Harwood will meet the most formidable opponent he has yet had this season when he faces Gardner of Yale, who has been reaching championship heights in the polo vault this spring; while Krogness will have a Herculean task to win out in the high-jump against Landon of Yale intercollegiate champion. Gourdin and Brown, in view of their excellent showing to date, should place in their events...
...minutes later a pass out by Emmons from the corner gave him an opportunity to drive a second shot past Root, the Yale goal guard. During the twelve-minute scoreless scramble which followed, Yale never had a chance to shoot from nearer than mid-ice, while only the herculean work of the diminutive Captain Carson kept the Blue goal inviolate...
...entering a state university or entering Harvard under the College Board Examinations as a candidate for the S. B. degree. To avoid a degree which does not in the least indicate his field of college study, this student must fit himself for the three-year Latin examination; a herculean task if undertaken without help; an expensive one if received from the "window"; a costly expenditure of valuable time if gained by attending the Cambridge, Latin School, as some men in college have done...
There have always been "snap" courses in Harvard and every other college. The elimination of them has been like decapitating the hydra, as soon as one course is lopped off two grow in its place, in spite of the almost Herculean efforts of the committee. The truth remains that it is still possible for the crafty undergraduate to choose his courses so judiciously that he can obtain a degree with much less than the "required" amount of study. The fact however, that some of those courses which require the greatest amount of work are the most popular in the college...
...often attempted before midnight. Others try to study during these hours. The residents of the Yard have the street-cars and the various bells as a diversion; while this year those who dwell on Mt. Auburn street have the pleasant lullaby of the two pumps engaged in the Herculean task of pumping out a spring which flows beside Claverly. Since springs have a habit of filling up as fast as they are pumped out, and as the noises in the Yard seem likewise destined to go on forever, let us not aggravate their inevitable chorus by preventable accompaniments...