Word: undergoes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...forget, or at least fail to appreciate, the efforts which most of our athletic men are continually making during the examinations. They are training quietly and patiently throughout these weary weeks that Harvard may win more athletic laurels next spring. The course of training which these men have to undergo severely taxes their pluck and perseverance. Probably at examination times when they are exhausting so much of their mental energy, the strain is greater than at the time of a race, when they are buoyed up by the excitement of the moment. Do we fully appreciate the sacrifice which they...
...present time, the flint is entirely ground and polished on one side, but on the other has yet to undergo corrections for diffraction. Whereas it is now slightly convex on this latter side it will have to be ground flat or even a trifle concave, to bring about the desired result. The crown is already ground and is being put through the process of polishing...
...compelled to make election speeches, or submit to unlimited 'heckling,' not to have to canvass the illiterate voter or the impracticable crotcheteer, not to have to open charitable bazaars, or preside at philanthropic meetings; in short to possess a seat in the Lower House without having to undergo any of the penalties attaching to it, is almost beyond the hope of ordinary mortals. Yet, such is their case and, despite Radical grumbling, we believe it will long remain so. An absurdly futile attempt was made, somewhile ago, to ascertain whether a moderate Liberal candidate could be run at the General...
...with and that a full year's work in necessary in order to train a new crew. As the university crew will be entirely recast this year, there is room for a promising candidate from '88. This should be an additional incentive to all men of that class to undergo careful work...
...self-working pulley, and several other inventions were tried, but found to be impractical. Nevertheless, it was said, the faculty would spare no efforts or money to make the life of students in the dormitories secure. After a year's deliberation, it was decided that the college would undergo the expense of putting a firm staple in every bedroom above the first floor. Thereby were the lives of the students to be saved. "But how," some of our younger men of '88 may ask, "can we escape by means of a staple?" "Oh, friend, know once for all that this...