Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head coach C. W. Martin today, the winter track season will start in earnest. Although practice for both University and Freshman squads has been held daily for the past week under the direction of Coach Farrell, the work has been light, it being deemed wise not to attempt anything strenuous until the arrival of the head coach...
...University hockey team started, on Monday, a week of intensive preparation for the contest with Princeton next Saturday, January 13, at the Arena. Having had a thorough rest since the exceptionally strenuous game with Toronto University a week ago, the squad is in excellent condition with the exception of E. M. Beals Jr. '25, whose cut ankle is still bothering him considerably. From all present indications, however, he will be back in the line-up against the Orange and Black, and should be able to play the major part of the contest. This should materially strengthen the team, for, with...
...second day of winter track practice, 20 more men reported for the squad, swelling the total to 150 candidates. However, such is the demand for competition among the relay teams, that more men are urged to report. Only light practice was held yesterday under Coach Farrell's direction, since strenuous practice will be commenced only on the arrival of head coach Martin...
...suggestion. Of course energetic New Yorkers can be reduced to a semi-comatose state only by a deliberate carefully planned hypnosis; but elsewhere "the semiconscious state with closed eyes" into which Dr. Gayer transports his hearers and which he insists is necessary for success has been reproduced by less strenuous methods. If he too went on a tour say of the colleges he probably could dispense with the orchestra. ("A little auto-suggestion and one can do anything.") At least the receptive state may be recommended for use in lectures...
After those strenuous hundred years come Hamlets whom men now living can remember. An eye-witness talks of one Henry Irving, a "travelling Hamlet" and his ovation at the Lyceum,--such as only a presidential candidate or Babe Ruth would get today. Then came Booth, the admirable nobleman, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, flawless in technique...