Word: overworked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are undergraduates, however, who, though they do not overwork on the R. O. T. C., have the feeling that they are wasting their time in any but military courses. They must remember that they are not here merely to mark time before being sent to a training camp. To say that we are now preparing for after the war has become a trite though necessary truism; but it is also of distinct disadvantage for a man in his career as an officer to get into bad habits of loafing. Finally, we often overlook the value of a general college...
...have sons who are wearing them for the first time. We see that the uniforms straighten them up, give them a new sense of responsibility, raise their ambitions and their standards. The benefits are not unmixed with evils. Men now and then get into uniforms who are inclined to overwork the authority which they symbolize and who offend us by vanity or by insolence. These however, are the exceptions, and we may feel confident that they will one day find their due levels. Upon the whole, uniforms in the national service make for a spirit of noblesse oblige, especially...
Saliba entered the University last fall, but suffered a nervous breakdown through overwork in connection with the Syrian fund and was obliged to leave College. He had recently been discharged as cured form the state hospital at Northampton...
...HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 2, 1916.--Because most of the backfield players are suffering from overwork, the coaches have begun a policy of trying out reserve candidates, giving the ball to each in turn during the afternoon. As a result Hutchinson has been shifted from centre on the first team to fullback on the second...