Word: strains
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...length of the Christmas recess allowed by the University is a perennial source of dissatisfaction. Everyone admits that it is impossible for a man to do a year's work at his highest efficiency unless the strain is broken up by several periods of relaxation and refreshment. This is the wherefore of holidays. Moreover, at least once during the academic session, it is necessary that the student take himself away from Cambridge and wash from him completely the dust of every day. He needs to forget temporarily the grind of study and the whirl of his petty activities among family...
...residential institution like Oxford or Cambridge that the outward effects of its desertion are less immediately obvious. But a look beneath the surface or a talk with any of the academic people who remain will quickly reveal the true state of affairs. And yet, despite the overwhelming strain of it all, so devoutly does France believe in the necessity of maintaining in every possible way the continuity of her intellectual activities that no lecture and no academic occasion that could by any possibility be retained has been suffered to go by the board. The Sorbonne-Harvard exchange has gone...
...strongest oarsmen, captain E. W. Soucy '16 at number 5 and K. P. Culbert '17 at 4. Soucy has a severe cold and a bad knee which will prevent his taking the trip to Red Top at all, while Culbert as has been previously stated, underwent muscle strain which also rendered further work impossible for the rest of the season. H. H. Meyer '15, the number 7 oarsman, has been appointed acting captain...
...descriptive essay on Pekin leaves the reader with vivid impressions, of swarming Oriental crowds, of a blue-tiled temple roof, of the distant throbbing of a great drum. So well rendered is its portrayal of the city's Kaleidoscopic charm and immemorial antiquity, that one wishes the narrative strain of its opening had been more consistently sustained...
...Lecture on "Stress-strain Diagrams in Steel," by Mr. A. P. Gradolph, in Conant Common Room...