Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the University. The season fits conveniently into our athletic calendar. Hockey, wrestling, and gymnastics have drawn only a fraction of the students into mid-winter sports, and boxing offers additional training for large numbers. Those who cannot compete on University teams have found a novel and strenuous way to bridge over the period between, say, fall tennis and Leiter cup baseball. These practical merits, confirmed by the excellent spirit of the spectators last night who evidenced neither a diletante "high blow" interest in athletics nor on the other hand an excess of violent enthusiasm insure the permanence...
...University hockey team wound up practice for the first Yale game with a short drill in passing and shooting at the Arena yesterday afternoon. There will be no practice today, for the squad will be given a rest after the strenuous work of the past week. The team has been driven hard in preparation for the game tomorrow night, and will line up against the Elis in good condition. Baker was excused from yesterday's work out on account of a cold, but will be back in the game against Yale. Thacher, who has had some trouble with a bruised...
...spirited 15-minute scrimmage with the Harvard Club team, which ended in a 1 to 1 tie, wound up practice for the University seven at the Arena yesterday afternoon. Coach Winsor showed no inclination to let up in the strenuous preparation for next Saturday's game, and kept the squad hard at work for over an hour. Thacher and Baker were both laid off yesterday, the former with a hip bruise which may keep him out until Saturday. Baker had a slight cold. Their places in the forward line were taken by Taylor and Baldwin, respectively...
...growth without a man's responsibilities; he needs an ingredient in his life of something beside books in order to make his books themselves seem real to him; he needs a dash of physical effort and even risk. And there is nothing, at present, except the more strenuous phases of athletics that can supply this want. If the college man's play looks to an outsider like the most earnest and whole-hearted thing that he ever does, it is because this play is at present his best substitute for "experience," and for that kind of "reality" which pain...
...Yale football squad has just passed through the most strenuous week of the season, beginning on Monday with the reorganization of the coaching system and ending up on Saturday with a 3 to 0 defeat at the hands of Brown, which showed nevertheless an improved team and a marked change in spirit...