Word: strained
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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University hockey practice in the Arena yesterday afternoon was confined to a spirited scrimmage between the substitutes and the Freshman team. All the regulars were allowed to rest because of the unusual strain of the Princeton game Saturday, but will be on the ice again today...
That last nerve-racking period of Saturday evening's game was announced as "sudden death." "Lingering death" would have fitted it better; for two teams which, after an unusually exhausting game ten minutes longer than the regular, fight through twenty-seven minutes under the strain of knowing that a single defensive slip-up will be irretrievable, are not dying suddenly. It means much for both sevens to have come through such a contest as Saturday's; it means very much for the University seven to have come through it victorious...
...Triangle Club, the dramatic organization of the University, has chosen for this year's production a two-act musical comedy entitled "The Pursuit of Priscilla," written by Robert Strain 1914, in collaboration with Henry P. Elliott 1914. The club will begin its annual trip during the Christmas vacation and will give performances in New York, Washington, Chicago, Pittsburg and probably one or two other cities...
...their coming practice, was emphasized by President Lowell in a speech of welcome at the reception to first year law students at Phillips Brooks House last evening. On entering Law School men cross minds with representatives of colleges in all parts of the country, and in the mutual strain of intellectual interest the students will find their most pleasant and profitable society. Another advantage arising from numerous friendships is that the students will later be distributed through many sections of the United States, and each can thus be certain of reliable and capable correspondents in other cities...
...first place, Freshmen, you are now free lances in a small world where there is nothing but your own ideals and will to bring you up. You have been dumped into a new system of education and must strain every power to stand with self-control the test of freedom. It takes a strong personality to weather the storms which are coming, but, once through unscathed, you have won the battle for success at Harvard. Cling to your ideals, though they seem but straws, and, if they are high ideals, you are safe...