Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moreover, this fact necessarily makes for a different mental attitude on the part of the undergraduates. Their competition is far less strenuous. I do not mean that the play is less vigorous. But it tends to make the mere winning or losing of less relative importance. It is as though your best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only...
...only is the attitude of the American undergraduate different. It also is the loyalty of the American graduate. The Oxford or Cambridge graduate loves his university, but, unlike to graduate of Princeton or Yale, he do not love her in altogether so strenuous a fashion. He does not have to set seriously to work to convince the public that his university is serving the national more effectively than any other university. For admittedly these two do so already. He does not create graduate councils and employ publicity agents, because there is no necessity for such things. (As with the English...
...Moreover, this fact necessarily makes for a different mental attitude on the part of the undergraduates. Their competition is far less strenuous. I do not mean that the play is less vigorous. But it tends to make the mere winning or losing of less relative importance. It is as though your best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only...
...only is the attitude of the American undergraduate different. It also is the loyalty of the American graduate. The Oxford or Cambridge graduate loves his university, but, unlike to graduate of Princeton or Yale, he do not love her in altogether so strenuous a fashion. He does not have to set seriously to work to convince the public that his university is serving the national more effectively than any other university. For admittedly these two do so already. He does not create graduate councils and employ publicity agents, because there is no necessity for such things. (As with the English...
After the strenuous contest on Wednesday and the hard practice yesterday the University should be in good condition for the game with Cornell tomorrow night. Cornell has been somewhat handicapped by not having had any practice on ice since Wednesday. Coach Hunter and his squad will arrive in Boston at 7.05 tomorrow morning and will stay at the Hotel Lenox, Boston...