Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...academic, and revel in rest and recreation; remembering always a fact which few ever do remember-- that the vacation should be the time to recuperate from the strain of College work, rather than that the first few weeks of January should be the time to recover from an over-strenuous vacation...
...hardship, of difficulties unforeseen, but it is a vocation that demands the best in men, and in the coming generation it is to be more important than ever in the past. Let us not ask for easy lives but for strength to meet the tasks that come through strenuous lives...
...work of the Freshman football squad yesterday was of a more strenuous nature than it has been previously. The squad was given practice in falling on the ball, then the backs were made to pick the ball from the ground while running. After a short drill in catching punts the squad was divided and two teams were put through a preliminary signal drill. The makeup of the first team was: Centre, Cotting; guards, Maguire and Dunlap; tackles, MacKay and Strong; ends, Rogers and Harding; quarter, Johnson; half-backs, Davis and Pope; fullback, Minot...
...first team in every department of the game, and they made seven errors in the six slow innings--more than they have made in the last three games taken together. They secured only one clean hit from Hicks, who pitched for the Freshmen. Saturday's strenuous game took all the life out of the men, and they were content to allow the Freshmen to gain a big lead which they were unable to overcome. Captain Dexter, Leonard, and Howe were excused from practice and given a complete rest...
Slight injuries will keep two of Harvard's regulars, Leonard and Briggs, on the bench today. Leonard's tendon, which he strained in the Army game last Saturday, is coming along nicely, but still bothers him a little. Briggs has been given a lay-off after the strenuous week in the South, but will be back in the game again within a few days. Waters will play first and Pritchett third...