Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unreasonable to suppose that such an innovation will lessen the evils of professional tutoring, for students doing their work in smaller quantities and by degrees would not find it necessary or expedient to resort to the professional tutor in preparing for examinations. What constitutes under the present system a strenuous eleventh-hour "cramming" would become under the proposed scheme a profitable and sane review...
Today the University and Freshman crew squads leave for Red Top where they will receive the final training in preparation for the annual races with Yale. This departure marks the beginning of the final phase of a season that has been long and strenuous. In the period of training to come the work will be the most severe of the entire season, for every member of the squad will be subjected to the physical and mental strain of preparation incident to a Yale race. We extend our best wishes to the crews who are leaving for the scene of final...
Candidates from the Sophomore class for the position of second assistant track manager of the University track team are requested to report to H. L. Gaddis '12, Hollis 27, this evening, at 7 o'clock. The competition this year will be unusually short but strenuous. No previous experience is required of candidates for the position, and it is hoped that a large number of Sophomores will report...
...Philosophy. He was the first chairman of the department committee. No man has had more to do with guiding the fortunes of philosophy at Harvard through great difficulties, than he. And now as the moment approaches when he has been looking forward to an early relief from his most strenuous cares, the department has to depend upon him more than ever. He is once more chairman. For one reason or another most of the rest of us are idle or absent. I want to express my earnest gratitude that he is still at the helm of our philosophical ship...
Journalistic ability in the class of 1914 is either latent or exhausted. By means of two strenuous competitions the CRIMSON has weeded out and taken unto itself the most efficient material which has presented itself, but the supply appears to be at an end. Six 1914 candidates now strive for final honors in our news department, while sixteen aspire for editorial positions. Although there are always more Freshmen than Sophomores in the news competition, this season shows the grand total of thirty-five first year men, as compared with the above-mentioned Sophomore six. With as many as five vacant...