Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sure, their efforts of the past few weeks are appreciated, and for several reasons. First, because before their selection as representatives of Harvard, they passed through what might well have proved a discouraging system of trials, and further because after their selection they have had a long and hard ordeal of training...
...chosen last night to represent Harvard in the coming Princeton debate, are first of all and deservedly to be congratulated. They have passed through a trial ordeal, which, although necessary and right in the interest of the debate, might, in the preliminary steps it entailed, well have exerted a discouraging influence...
Three weeks are left before the beginning of the mid-year examinations, and such men as have fallen at all behind in their courses will do well to start in today with a determination to get themselves into the best possible condition to stand their semi-annual ordeal. It may well be argued that the cramming system, with its short-sighted policy of making the examinations ends in themselves, is a thing to be frowned down. But so long as examinations are the only means of discovering how faithfully a student has performed the work assigned to him, just...
...great queen's life which is interesting even to the most indifferent student of history. It was Sir Thomas Seymour whom Elizabeth loved, and, as the author of this sketch puts it, "In her love for him she came near wrecking her happiness for his sake, and the sorrowful ordeal dried up all the freshness of her nature...