Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most college men, I suppose, visualize the study of the law either as a matter of memorizing legal forms or of learning the circumlocutions of dry logic. It is neither and far more difficult than both. It is a process of strenuous mental toughening, not unlike the process of toughening one's muscles, and strengthening one's wind and endurance for the supreme test of the "big game" or the "big race" which the college athlete endures. Learning the law is learning a method of attack and training the intellectual muscles until they are tough as whip cord, spring with...
...This shows that last year a gain of about $13,000 was made over the receipts of 1915-1916. However, expenses last year showed an increase of $18,000 over 1915-1916, but this amount would have been much larger if strenuous efforts had not been made in every department to curtail expenses...
...Lombard '17 will again be at the head of the Freshman squad, and may be assisted by several other former University players. Strenuous work for the yearling candidates will not commence until after the holidays, though light workouts will start within a week or two if weather conditions permit...
...several years Mr. Sheldon has been one of the commanding figures of the Eastern hemisphere in this country. He is noted as an international football expert, and stands out as an exponent of strenuous life in the open. During and after the war he served as chairman of the Australian Repatriation Commission, which was signally successful in its work of restoring captured Australian soldiers and sailors to their country. He also became famous for his work as a war statistician...
...moreover, have not the complicated problems arising here out of the fact that graduate students--whose object should be the attainment of specialized knowledge--are taught in the same classes with undergraduates--whose aim should be the acquisition of intellectual power. The work of a tutor is infinitely more strenuous and exhausting than that of a lecturer; the fact that the academic year in Oxford and in Cambridge is of only six months duration is an indication of the strain to which the teaching force is put. A tutorial system is, moreover, extremely expensive; the tutors and the general examination...