Word: strained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that I was much more fortunate than my fellows, who had become permanently disabled in their zeal for prizes and scholarships. Bodily exhaustion had prevented me from working permanent injury to the brain. I was enabled to return and be graduated, though for several years the effects of the strain were a constant reminder of what might have been...
...days ago we took occasion to remind the sophomore class that there were but two of its members on the editorial board of the CRIMSON. Now we wish to speak a word in the same strain to ninety-one. We have at present only one representative from the freshman class, and we are anxious to have more in due time. Shortly after the April recess we shall take on another freshman editor, provided one is found competent to fill the position. We therefore invite any member or members of the class of ninety-one to contribute to our columns-whether...
...real name is not known, and inquiry gives no information about either author or publisher. "Childe Harvard" is a narrative in verse, and is a travesty on Byron's "Childe Harold." The poem consists of four cantos and covers about 150 duodecimo pages. It is written in a humorons strain, interspersed with some sentimentality, and contains many bits of bright verse. The story itself is very obscure, and is no more than a foundation on which the writer bases his many digressions. But it is, nevertheless, amusing, and no one can read of the old landmarks and customs, which have...
...realize that in a few months, eighty-eight, a class which has ever been an honor to Harvard College, goes out and leaves behind a gap which will be hard to fill. We shall miss her sorely. She has made a noble record and we shall have to strain every nerve to fill the holes left in our ranks...
...this year; and anyone who views the subject in a fairminded way cannot blame them for doing so. The month of January is a time of hard preparation for the midyears, and two weeks is only too short a time in which a man can get braced for the strain...