Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beta Kappa key, not for the worthy efforts these symbols represent, but for the fancied prestige they infer. Failing to see that all glory depends on whole-hearted devotion to work, they attribute the glamor of the varsity letter to some intrinsic quality rather than to the strenuous efforts of generations of athletes. Their fatuous grinding away for "recognition" has for its goal an impossible flaunting of decorations, while the "big" man is invariably the least ostentatious. But the small pompous individual lusts to be clad in titles, honors, and ceremonies, and his narrowness prevents his seeing that...
...announcement should have been made at this time. In the first place there have been rumors steadily gathering force and cogency in Washington to the effect that Mr. Harding was tired of his job, that his own health and that of his wife precluded another long and strenuous campaign, that harassed by the extremists of the Old Guard on the one hand and the insurgent LaFollette group on the other, he preferred to have the Republican Party ship steered by other hands. These rumors are automatically put at rest by the explicit announcement that he will follow tradition...
...last seven games were the most strenuous of the season. M. I. T. '26 presented a greatly improved team on February 21 and held the Crimson to a 38-27 score compared to the former 28-3 game on January 18. The Dartmouth Freshmen were defeated next in one of the best games of the season. Although the Crimson held the lead all through the game, a last-minute rally by the Green came near to tying the score. The University Freshmen have not faced Princeton this year, but Dartmouth defeated the Orange and Black 37-22 the week before...
...four eights were out on the water for three-quarters of an hour, the longest practice on the harbor so far this season. This marks the beginning of more strenuous training for the University squad, as it is probable that from now on the coaches will begin to groom their charges in the finer points, combining this with longer daily work-outs...
...March 3 the University met Yale at the Arena and lost 3-0. The squad showed the effects of the three strenuous preceding games and lacked the aggressiveness which had characterized its earlier contests. The game was slow and uninteresting, two of Yale's goals being made in the last session when the Crimson defense had been shifted to aid in the attack...