Word: strained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than likely that Benson, the indoor intercollegiate two-mile champion, may nose him out in the longer race, especially if he withdraws from the mile. If he runs in both events, it is quite likely that he will capture a second place in each, although the strain may prove too much for him. R. C. Aldrich '31 and J. O. Wildes '30 are the other Crimson hopes in the mile run. Both have been showing up well during the cross-country and winter seasons and are considered capable of coping with the other Cornell threats, Eldridge and Levering. Should Benson...
Europeans have always marveled that the diplomatic and consular representatives of the U. S. are so often of the same strain as the people to whom they are accredited. For example, the U. S. Minister to Norway is Laurits Selmer Swenson, born in New Sweden, Minn., and husband of onetime Miss Ingeborg Odegaard of Norseland, Minn. Last week another instance of this sort of thing strikingly appeared in a report of the U. S. Consul-General at Paris, Mr. Alphonse Gaulin, a one-time Mayor of Woonsocket, R. I., where live many French-Canadians...
...university and lectures but rarely. He was the Lowell lecturer at Harvard in 1917 and the West lecturer in Leland Stanford University in 1920. He has spoken occasionally before the National Institute of Arts and Letters of which he is a member. Tomorrow he will discuss "Primitive Strain and Religion" and on Thursday will speak on "Fact in Art and Science...
...examinations and the three hour duration of each one are facts which combine to justify the period of two weeks and a half. Furthermore, it is firmly believed that a plan which involves more than a single examination in one day defeats its own purpose when the physical strain is taken into account. Yale, on the other hand, in waiving all such considerations, subjects students to the possibility of enduring as many as four two hour examinations in the span of a day. When the Harvard system is criticized by someone viewing it from outside, the principal objection is usually...
...systems were instituted before 1914. Two of the most notable examples were Russia and Turkey. It is quite conceivable that under normal circumstances the new systems might have evolved satisfactorily in time, as the country in question developed economically and socially. But the world war proved too great a strain. Even the more advanced countries found the existing system unsatisfactory and introduced war governments, which smacked strongly of dictatorships. In the less advanced countries the war led to total collapse, as in Russia and in Turkey. In 1917 the liberal experiment in Russia proved entirely inadequate and Lenin's success...