Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Saturday evening. One of the most unsatisfactory features of our college life is that every athletic victory brings with it disagreeable consequences; that every bright cloud, so to speak, has its dark lining. Can not an individual be a freshman and a man at once? If these would-be tough freshmen were mature enough to realize how silly such performances are, it is safe to say they would not disgrace their class and themselves again. It is unfortunate that when newspapers like the Record are ever on the watch for some foolish scrape to magnify, these childish freshmen should...
...capable of saying much about the Dvorak symphony. At the end of several of the tough passages the violins would look at each other in mute congratulation that they had come out even. However, it is a grand composition and deserves our admiration even if we cannot understand some parts...
...This course is intentionally made rather tough in order to discourage cramming at the outset and promote, thorough, steady work...
...entrance. Knowing that to obtain a copy of the paper is not practicable, the ingenious young man, whose conscience and knowledge are both at a low ebb, prepares himself for the battle. That is, he makes his "cribs." An old-fashioned "crib" is made by taking a strip of tough, thin paper, five or six inches in length and one in width, fastening at each end a match, writing the slip full of memoranda likely to prove useful, rolling up each end until the two cylinders meet, and then by a light elastic fastening them together. This crib is held...
...Lampoon, some eight years ago, inspired by the co-educational movement then setting in at Harvard, drew a picture of what would probably be seen at the college in the year 1976. A young lady, very "tough" in looks and dress, with a cigarette and a "dawg," was represented as coming out of Holworthy, carrying a shingle with the announcement that the Amazon Club met that night. Look on this picture, and on the following, and then say if the Lampoon's prophecy is unlikely to come to pass. On one of the trains to New York-so we learn...