Word: strennous
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...Outing Club, in line with its recently adopted policy this summer of abandoning some of its more strennous activities in order to please as many people in the Summer School as possible, has planned for Sunday a tour of historic Boston by horse-drawn carriage...
Although the film is played in modern dress, its humor is of another and more gentle age. Among the characters are the "conferencier a la mode", who cannot practice what he preaches; love; the countess whose strennous efforts to uphold the amenities are always failing; the pedantic and bespectacled English girl awkwardly seeking a husband; and many others of a similar comic "genre". The plot is one of clean drawing-room intrigue, arising from the misunderstanding of misplaced letters. And yet in spite of its conventional nineteenth-century machinery, the film is genuinely amusing. The lines are distinguished by their...
Inter-house hockey has finally gotten into full swing with a strennous schedule of games to be played in the areana on next Friday and Monday nights of next week...
...Cordingley '25 seem at present the best prospects for firststring twirlers next spring. However, C. J. Burns '25, D. G. Casto '26, F. E. Morely '26, and R. G. Norris '24 all seem potentially capable of filling the mound position. The work for all men has not been strennous, due to the danger of overtraining early in the season...
...They also satisfy the spirit of competition in men; this requires victories,--and sometimes defeats. At present, however, the University feels that it does not need the latter; and it is with the words of our Marseillaise in mind that all now cry "On to New London!" There a strennous close to the campaign of 1914-15 is expected...