Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Governor Woodrow Wilson's address of last Saturday brings out many points of very special interest in these days of strenuous and earnest social reform movement. There is a common error nowadays into which the over-zealous reformer is very apt to fall, namely that of judging the value of a principle or an action solely by its indirect consequences. Thus, in private property rights, the socialist sees an evil, not because the holding of private property is in itself a wrong, but because evil has resulted from the abuse of this right. In like manner he declares the present...
...regular University preacher; and most important of all perhaps, during this week and next he is to deliver the Noble Lectures in Sanders Theatre. In behalf of the College the CRIMSON wishes to extend to Dr. Grenfell a hearty welcome and to wish him no ill effects from the strenuous week which is to be of such benefit to the men who hear...
Howe has always been clever with the forward pass and the on-side kick, two plays which the weather discounted in the Princeton game. If he can use these plays successfully against Harvard, it will relieve him of much of the strenuous work which devolved upon him last Saturday and may enable him to play out the entire game. If he has to retire, Merritt, the captain of the baseball team, will be the first substitute. Merritt has been playing football at Yale for four years but has never been able to win a permanent position on the university team...
Howe has always been clever with the forward pass and the on-side kick, two plays which the weather discounted in the Princeton game. If he can use these plays successfully against Harvard, it will relieve him of much of the strenuous work which devolved upon him last Saturday and may enable him to play out the entire game. If he has to retire, Merritt, the captain of the baseball team, will be the first substitute. Merritt has been playing football at Yale for four years but has never been able to win a permanent position on the university team...
...Freshman football squad was given strenuous work yesterday afternoon. A drill in catching punts was given to the backs, and charging practice for the linemen was held. The first team then went through a long dummy scrimmage with the substitutes in which no tackling was allowed. Afterwards the first team lined up against the second for a forty-minute scrimmage. For the first ten minutes the play was decidedly listless but became more lively as practice went on, and after about fifteen minutes' play the first team worked the ball down to the second's two-yard line. The next...