Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ambition and pride. The thought that they may derive great good from these activities does not generally enter a student's head until long after he has graduated from college. Every undergraduate activity that is worth while has to be bought at the price of a long and strenuous competition. This competition is what lifts these activities from the level of social amusements to training of the highest order, the enormous value of which will become apparent as soon as the student is turned loose upon the world and is required to face it. The present movement at Yale will...
...teams playing early in the season because the development of the teams would be equal, inasmuch as practice starts about the same time everywhere. The details of the plan are too complex to be settled by one person. Particulars reference is made to football because the play is so strenuous that games cannot be multiplied at will...
...therefore, count on you good offices to let every member of the Unit know how grateful his Majesty's Government feels for the generous offer made and carried out in December. 1916? Through two strenuous and memorable years the work of General Hospital 22, the largest hospital unit serving with the British Army, has held a record for skilful and untiring treatment of our wounded. The memory of so much service and self sacrifice can ever pass from us; it will be cherished in perpetuity by the relatives and friends of those whom the Harvard Unit has tended with such...
...appointed instructors to arrange--but all final athletic contests and intercollegiate matches and games may best be left with the student athletic organizations to manage under the supervision of an athletic committee as at present constituted. No college, in my opinion, can consistently require its students to engage in strenuous athletic contests with students from another college...
...account of the irregularity of practice, the College eleven is only now stepping into its fast stride. Coach Donovan has been giving his players strenuous drilling, however, and expects the team to start off the season with a victory. The Tufts aggregation has been developing rapidly in the last few weeks and because of its wealth of veteran material, expects to carry the pigskin back to Medford...