Word: overstraining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...another point which Professor Copeland mentioned is not so evident. Having chosen his few interests, and having divided his sixteen hours of the day, how often will the sometimes brilliant scholar and prominent man overstrain and find too late that he is doing too much! Professor Copeland hit the nail on the head when he uttered a warning to this small class of men. The pride of the college in that they are the "all-around" men, well balanced, often brilliant both in studies and "outside interests", they bear the burdens which the less energetic do not care to assume...