Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strenuous efforts to overcome the handicap of variable weather conditions and limited practice are in order for the Freshman hockey squad this week. Last, night the yearlings had their initial workout under the eye of former Coach Alfred Winsor '02, stacking up against the University seven in a hard forty-five minute scrimmage. In the few minutes of play before Freshman second-string men were sent into the game the University seven scored four goals, two by Rigelow, and one each by Emmons and Owen. There after the 1924 defense could offer little hindrance to the University forwards...
...regular practice was held yesterday by the basketball squad, in view of the strenuous game with Tufts Wednesday evening. Coach Wachter believed a rest before meeting Amherst this evening and Williams tomorrow evening more beneficial than a workout...
Take the case of Dr. J. Varley Roberis, who wanted music to be entered as a regular study in Oxford University Naturally he was met with strenuous opposition, but finally he won, and now from his observations extending over thirty years he records the remarkable fact that, although only ten percent of the great student body has been addicted to music study at the university, seventy five percent of the scholarship honors of the entire university have been won by this ten percent group...
...this week. The extremely short practice periods allowed because of the popularity of the Arena with skaters from several colleges, and the difficulties of shaping a team in less than one week to meet a seven which has been at top trim for more than a month call for strenuous effort. Alfred Winsor '05 was on the ice again last night, giving his aid to Coach William H. Claflin '15, and the twenty-five minutes of smashing scrimmage was featured by the fastest work yet shown by the Crimson squad...
...result of the strenuous two-hour drills which the candidates for the University swimming team have been holding in the Boston Y. M. C. A. tank every weekday except Saturday, the men are now turning in good records in the practice trials. Although Coach Prendergast does not want to announce the exact times which the members of the squad are making in the various events, he has stated that Captain A. H. Brackett ocC., P. Johnson '21 and C. S. Worcester '22 have done better than 27 seconds in the 50-yard dash and better than 1 minute, 4 seconds...