Word: overworks
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...departure in training the crew is worthy of commendation. Heretofore the tendency has been toward overwork; the crew has begun to train too soon and has worked too hard at the beginning. As a result some of the men have reached their best condition three or four weeks before the race, and from that time onward have deteriorated. Last year the experiment was tried of not having the old members of the crew begin to train until after the holidays. This method has worked so well that this year the whole crew has been kept off the weights until...
Again, a long course of training is apt to overwork class crew men, who can not stand the amount of work assigned to 'Varsity candidates; they become over-trained before the day of the race. This was shown last year, when two of the crews at least were in their best condition three weeks before the race was rowed...
...grades of scholarship attained by men at college. By some, the marking system is upheld, as the only means to prevent idleness and neglect, and as an unfailing incentive to "healthy, honest competition," as one contemporary has it; others trace from it all the prevalent evils that result from overwork and cramming, while some, with careful conservatism, agree that it is a good which, like all other goods, possesses some grain of evil that cannot be avoided. In one exchange the methods of assigning scholarships at German, English and American schools are thoroughly discussed, and the relative results derived...
...large per cent of the cases of overwork caused by excessive study, it is found that the exhaustion is not produced by continued systematic work, but by a few weeks, or perhaps days, of hard "grinding" for examinations. The mind, unaccostomed to such work, naturally gives way under the strain of so much knowledge forced into it in such a short time, and forgets usually in as few days as were required to learn it. One can perform ten hours work each day with the brain as readily as with the muscles of the body, provided it is done regularly...
...plan is like that of a horse-car company with its horses, which gives the brutes the minimum of oats and the maximum of work, and has, by long experience, learned to keep the unhappy animals nicely balanced on a knife edge, between death from starvation and prostration from overwork...