Word: herculean
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...blanks were returned to Thurber and his committee, to whom the Herculean task of tabulating the ballots was assigned. Comments on the survey ranged from "On the whole a very admirable questionnaire" to "A stupid questionnaire. Typical of Harvard...
...relay in the excellent time of 3:17.2, breaking the former mark of 3.18 set by the Big Green in 1937. Ed Burrowes, a one man track team, raced for Princeton in this event and further aided Nassau's cause with a third in the mile run. Without his Herculean assignment Burrowes would undoubtedly have won the mile, for the week before he had gained an easy victory over the winner, Dick Morss of Yale, in 7-10ths of a second better time than was made Saturday. Harvard finished fifth in the event, besting only Columbia...
...Mikkolamen swept the field events to account for seven of their eight first. Nat Heard made a herculean heave of 145 feet 9 inches in the discus throw for one of the best individual performances of the meet, outdistancing Walewski of Holy Cross by more than nine feet...
Thus the faculty committees which struggle with the Herculean task of giving a Harvard education a common content should keep a keen eye on the more or less sweeping reform plans in force at Chicago, St. John's, Columbia, and North Carolina. They should draw their lesson from the experiences of these pioneers, who have spared Harvard the costs of hit-or-miss experimenting. They should not shrink back from the pains of a thorough cure, if they feel that eventually it would put the patient back on his feet. For liberal education has passed beyond the stage where occasional...
...clad referee soft reclining in the white cupola far cross the seething field, was Sir Vagabond's ultimate goal a stead-fast symbol of safety was this man. Steel clashed on steel, the horns of battle did boom out loud and clear, and the knight with heaving breath and Herculean effort did clear himself a breach across the way, did with uncertain step attain the white cupola...