Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Pennsylvania, three thousand at New York University and the University of Cincinnati, three-fourths of the student body of little Middlebury contributing five hundred ballots--these figures indicate that American colleges in diverse sections of the country are sufficiently aroused over what promises to be a strenuous Presidential campaign to register their opinions on paper...
...classification was right in some respects: witness the time-honored belief in German thoroughness. The continued existence of this trait is seen in a report from Berlin on the thorny path laid out for the diplomats-to-be of the young republic. The German university curriculum is a strenuous enough struggle; but after that, three years of theoretical political studies face the apprentice statesman. Add to this requirement the necessity of completely mastering a minimum of three languages, and of acquiring the sports and social graces of foreign countries; and one sees the same perserverance that has actuated scholars...
...slouched with such comic melancholy through Shuffle Along, are again on hand. They organize the Equal Got League, a millennial society which is even funnier than the Knights of the Green Forest; Mr. Miller is its cunning and listless leader, Mr. Lyles his henchman. There are also more strenuous Bedlamites from Harlem who break into loud melodious ululations; there is a skilful and frantically energetic black and blues orchestra and marty lively tappers and prancers of whom one, name unspecified, brandishes her mahogany limbs with incredibly vicious abandon...
...accurate and thorough habit of mind, not a frittering away of the attention by a multitude of small matters of which the pupil does not get enough to develop consecutive thought. Too much attention has been paid to making education attractive by smoothing the path as compared with inducing strenuous voluntary effort...
General John Joseph Pershing asked his son Francis Warren Pershing not to row on the Yale Freshman crew this year. Reason: The General considers rowing too strenuous for a youth of his son's physique...