Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...strenuous outbreak occurred. It had been the custom for students to offer excuse for absence from chapel. The tutors decided no longer to admit such excuses. This caused great indignation among the students, who met in a body and declared the rule "unconstitutional." Several windows were broken and several suspected students expelled. At this the three lower classes went to the President declaring that they would leave College. The Seniors applied for recommendation to another college. The Overseers of the College, however, held a meeting, and by confirming the action of the President and tutors and announcing their resolution...
Those who wish to see more rowing contests, on the theory that more races make for better crews and better sport, will approve the sending of the second University crew to the American Henley. No sport demands more strenuous training and yet has fewer formal contests than rowing--a condition that can be remedied by widening its scope. The resumption of interest and the re-entrance of a crew in the American Henley is good...
Yesterday afternoon during a strenuous practice despite the unfavorable weather conditions University crews A and B had two short races of one-half mile each. The two boats divided honors as crew B came out victorious in the first race and A won the second. In order to find the best coxswain among the three retained on the University squad the men will rotate for periods of about a week each among the three University boats. At present H. L. F. Kreger '16 is coxswain on crew A. L. M. Sargent '16 on crew B, and H. Gallaher...
Along with everybody else, to the team that won, we extend our congratulations, and to the team that lost, our sympathy; to every man who worked to make the season a success, our appreciation for doing his best. Debating has won its place among the truly strenuous diversions, and as feeling is proportionate to the intensity of the effort, a defeat and a victory bring a mingling of the bitterest and the sweetest. We should not grieve too much for a championship that might have been: if this year's efforts have failed to bring us more than divided honors...
Crew practice for both the University and Freshmen will be strenuous this week in view of the prospective cut. The only change of importance that occurred last week was the shifting of Blanchard and Young of the second Freshman boat to the first boat in place of Ely and Wylde...