Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the daily supervision of Coach Herbert Haines, the 15 organized 1925 crews have been engaging in strenuous workouts during the past week in preparation for the races today and tomorrow. This afternoon at 4.45 o'clock numbers 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of the autumn material crews will be pitted against one another, the winner to enter the contest tomorrow with the first seven yearling boats--A. C. M. numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 and the three football crews...
...linesmen, under the direction of Coach Sedgwick, practiced starts, dodging, and handling the ball. The backfield men passed and kicked. Captain Buell instructed them in drop-kicking and passing, while Coach Fisher directed the punters. The work was not strenuous, but was almost entirely a matter of conditioning. This general program will be continued for several days, before any hard work is attempted. When the squad has finally been rounded into good condition, the work will become harder, with emphasis on dummy tackling and interference. Finally, as a climax to the spring season, there will be a number of scrimmages...
...record total of 60 men reported for the opening session at the Arena the next day, but for two weeks nothing strenuous in the way of scrimmage work was attempted, the men being given occasional opportunities to show their ability in a series of practice tilts will the B. A. A., M. I. T., and Westminster sextets...
...work for the fielders will not start with any strenuous practice but will consist mainly of a general work-out to get the men limbered up. During the first few days Coach Slattery will send them through light batting, bunting, and fielding work while Trainer Donovan will start his conditioning exercises by sending his men a daily runs. The fielding candidates have already been through a certain amount of this hardening process by setting-up work at the Hemenway Gymnasium under the direction of the Physical Department...
...Harvard University branch of the Shifters is dying, but the true American spirit of fraternity survives--we now have the Ku Klux Klan. Throughout the University strenuous efforts are being made to secure members. Have you any spite to vent against the Catholics, the Jews, the Negroes, the Socialists, the Indians, the Chinese, the Japanese, or any foreign born? The Klan is looking for you. Have you a secret desire to wear a white hood and be taught to shudder at the reports of Klan spies concerning the machinations of "three groups attempting to gain selfish domination over our country...