Word: overworks
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...worn out by overwork and fatigue, exhausted by the thousands of blows on your heels or overwhelmed by business worries? If you are, do not bother with O'Sullivan's and patent medicines; buy a copy of Shakspere and rid yourself of all your trouble. Shakspere is advised as a sedative for the hurrying crowds of New York, and perhaps having tried all other methods of avoiding fatigue, some few may adopt this suggestion like the man who increased his Ford's efficiency 9643 percent by the purchase of accessories, bought a gallon of gasoline and started for California...
...easy for those who come to college because their parents send them here, and stay simply because it is "the thing to do" to get themselves catapulted through their examinations. And during the rest of the year, there are of course sufficient diversions to keep their brains from dangerous overwork. Granting that these men are here to gain a certain amount of prestige what place in our educational institution can they have who during Plague Week go huddling into quarantine...
...became the most popular pastime in college. It was given the name of Rolo, and all maner of rules were devised. The Circle of the Elders discovered that Rolo had a beneficial effect on the health of the contestants, and as many of the students were becoming anaemic from overwork, the game was prescribed for them--especially for the newcomers--as part of their college work...
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...