Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another figure in the tournament was John D. Ames, blond son of Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames (sinuous Princeton quarterback of the strenuous '90s), who lost to Watts Gunn in the second round but was elected president of the Intercollegiate Golf Association...
...possible that there are ways of spending a more strenuous few days than Commencement Week in Cambridge, but they must be comparatively few. Leading the list of such exceptional pastimes would rank the activities of the men who will man the Crimson sweeps on the turgid waters of the Thames tomorrow. Fortunately, from this point of view their number is small, but since it follows quite naturally that the reward is sweet in proportion to the number which shares the same, we pause to commiserate but remain to applaud. You nine men of the crew, all honor...
Both respites are the results of strenuous workouts yesterday evening when the Crimson and Eli first eights had each a four-mile speed trial, the University oarsmen rowing down the course about one hour before their rivals. A tide favored the boat, as well as a light northwest wind...
...just half a century ago, the CRIMSON, remarked that there were now 14 candidates for the University crew, and adds that they "have been pulling seven hundred and fifty strokes and running two miles daily." This would seem to be pretty strenuous work for candidates for a crew during their period of training, but the CRIMSON puts the candidates through the arid bath of journalistic criticism. One can scarcely imagine the CRIMSON of today, or any college paper, getting away with this little resume of candidates...
...Crimson baseball team is pointing for the strenuous final games, including contests with Holy Cross. Brown, Penn, Dartmouth and the annual series with Yale. In an early season diamond meeting with Yale Georgetown went to 11 innings to take an 8 to 7 struggle from the Elis...