Word: strained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sittings must be finished by the first of March, and now is the best time for getting this disagreeable duty off your hands. Between Christmas and the Mid Year's all your time is taken up with grinding for the examination; after the mid-years are over the strain of getting through your last set of semi-annual examinations will have reduced you to such an extremity that few will care to go down to posterity looking as you will then look. Now is the time and we hope every senior will consider it his duty to make an appointment...
...this latter capacity that we wish to speak. The work of Mr. Connor, the Princeton umpire in the game on Saturday, was of immense advantage to his team. Placed in a position where he could see everything and relieved from all the mental strain required of an actual player, he was able to coach and give the signs to his eleven in a most effective manner as well as to act as umpire. Mr. Adams, our umpire, did well in that capacity and did some excellent coaching, but he did not have the management of the team down to such...
...this point our bow oar showed signs of weakening, and the stroke and number four in the Columbia boat gave evidences of the terrible strain. The Columbia men at the end of the third mile were pulling 39 strokes...
...pleasing for the students who toil on their examinations in these rooms. It seems to be a regular feature of examination rooms to be too cold when we want them warm and too warm when we want them cool. It may be that students, when under the strain of an examination, are very difficult to please, and therefore their complaints should carry little weight, but we always feel so much compassion for the proctors during this trying period that we think a little more care might be taken on their account if not on our own. Anyone who has suffered...
once offered by them to the best runner in school. A few years ago there was considerable discussion in England about the large amount of time given to athletics at Eton, and how study was secondary to sport, and so on in the same strain that we have so often heard. One particularly severe article appeared in the Edinborough Review, criticising harshly the condition of affairs at Eton. However, cause for complaint, if it ever existed, has, we believe, now disappeared...