Word: strains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...game and not afterwards. It is a great task to deal out 32,000 or 35,000 tickets on any system, but it is a task performed every week in grand opera season by the Boston Theatre. We all realize the rush and the vexation, but plainly the nervous strain of the process is much increased if the manager is to be subject to heavy demands for a preference...
...will not go at present. I offer this suggestion now, because I believe that all the boys (men if you prefer so to call them) not only of Harvard, but also of Yale, who take part in these contests, will be the better if they are spared the strain of that last mile, and because the question may better be considered now before another athletic agreement with Yale is arranged...
...cannot show, nor do I believe it to be a fact that the men who have taken part in the contests of past years have been seriously injured thereby. Nevertheless the strain is a very severe one, greater than in any other of our College contests, and many men have, I know, felt the effects of it for a very considerable period...
...minute why we have athletic sports at all. Is it not for the pleasure and amusement to be gained from them, for the cultivation of manliness and for the benefit to general health and vigor? Of course in the case of our big teams or crews, where the strain is most severe, men do not try for them for their health, but to "make" the team, and for the honor and advancement to be gained thereby. And this is certainly worth some risk, as are also the lessons of experience and self-denial, and the spirit of co-operation, that...
...point out that the Oxford-Cambridge race is rowed in March in cold weather, while our race comes at end of June, so that the contest and the final period of preparation come in hot weather, and while the men are having their final examinations, which makes the strain much more severe...