Word: strains
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...During that year, on account of a tie game with Princeton, we were forced to play nine championship games in a limited season, which was found to be disastrous to the playing ability of our nine. In order not to undergo the chance of having to experience such a strain again we refused to agree to play more than three games. Harvard waived the point but objected to playing the game on neutral grounds before either of the other two games. Their reason, as given, was, that by such an arrangement Harvard would be at a disadvantage in playing...
...that there is only one lecture room large enough for their accommodation. This room is a hard one to speak in and the arrangement of seats is bad so that many men cannot hear the lecturer. To make as many hear as do Professor Norton is plainly forced to strain his voice. The result is that the course is not satisfactory to either lecturer or students. There seems to be only one remedy, to limit the size of the course. If it were open only to seniors and juniors it would be brought within fairly reasonable limits. It could then...
...fire." Nevertheless, both "Dawn" and the "Villanelle" are more than mediocre. One or two lines of the former are good, although in consideration of the innumerable word-harmonies of which "Dawn" has been the theme, it is not strange if one notes the lack of a single original strain in the song. The "Villanelle" is correct in form and in a certain brightness of fancy reminds one of Herrick. As a villanelle it is praise-worthy...
...addressed the St. Paul's Society last evening on the larger hopes that should now be held for the influence of Christianity. He spoke of the discouragement that St. Paul once felt in regard to the faith among the Thessalonians. Paul had passed through a period of severe mental strain, and, during the reaction, news had come to him that the Thessalonians were growing lax. He sent Timothy to them and expected him to bring back a bad reports, but to his joy it was the reverse; the Thessalonians had been misrepresented. It is often so; men grow moody over...
...difference between a league of three colleges, each playing the others, and one college standing single-handed against two which separately strain every nerve to crush it, while it has no chance to play off one against another, should certainly be apparent to the Harvard men; it comes home with a great deal of force to the Yale management. In fairness to the University, however, we would say that the News does not offer this as a vindication needed for our action, it suggests it as a possible reason...