Word: stress
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...action, muscular development and strength. It involves only a single examination, and its object is largely anthropometric. The proposed examination, on the contrary, would be directed rather to ascertaining the normal condition of the man, and then to noting the changes taking place in his organization under the stress of training. The two points of view are radically different, yet they might be combined with advantage...
...responsibility of distributing outside of and at the same time with the regular distribution, several thousand tickets according to his discretion. These tickets are given out in all parts of the field; the position depending upon the strength of the applicant's claim. Is it surprising that under the stress of such a responsibility the management finds itself unable to distribute the other tickets according to schedule, that, for instance, H. A. A. members, contrary to agreement, were assigned seats on or behind the goal lines, while ordinary undergraduate applications were filled with better seats? The management cannot deeds each...
...annual Memorial Day exercises to commemorate the Harvard men who died in the Civil War, and also the virtues shown by Harvard men at all times of public stress since the College was established, will be held in Sanders Theatre at 12 o'clock tomorrow...
...time passes, however, fewer and fewer of such men are left. Moreover, it is felt that the day ought to commemorate not only the Harvard soldiers of forty years ago, but also the virtues shown by Harvard men at all times of public stress since the college was established; and that this commemoration would come most appropriately from the present students. The Memorial Society believes that the nobility of these men has still its message to speak to us as it spoke to our older brothers in '98. and that we can hear it most clearly perhaps from the lips...
...life of the Romans, to illustrate their character, and to interpret their genius for organization. The arrangement and the connections of topics lay emphasis on the continuity of the subject so that the reader follows an uninterrupted line of thought from the beginning to the end. More than usual stress is placed upon the period of the emperors and the author, following the recommendations of the committee of seven, continues the narrative to Charlemagne, including an account of the growth and organization of the Christian Church, of the invasions and settlements of the barbarians, and the Germanic life and institutions...