Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With such a purpose in view, tennis has rather striking qualities for becoming a really popular sport, since its limitations are so few. The elementary principles of the game may be acquired in a few minutes, yet there is practically no limit to the advance which scientific study and constant practice may achieve. Again, while no athletic training or qualifications are necessary to begin with, the excellent training in the co-ordination of mind and muscle which the game furnishes is scarcely equaled by any other sport. And, finally, commencing with but two players, the number of available courts...
...listed in the pamphlet of courses. The undergraduate is chronically censured for his supposed lack of interest in the problems relating to national life. As a stock criticism of "things as they ought not to be" in the student example of higher education, it has been a constant boon to writers when all other subjects failed. However, while we do feel that a surprisingly strong case might be argued for the undergraduate, yet the lack of interest, and therefore of knowledge, concerning issues of the day is a great deal more common than it ought...
Vigorous methods were adopted at Yale to prevent the spread of the Spanish influenza, and they were rewarded with great success; a program of non-intercourse and constant out-door activity was laid out by the military and the college authorities which minimized the danger of infection...
Well, enough for now--lest I weary you too much. I think we're going to get a rest for a spell now--after 2 1-2 months of constant jumping. Certainly we need it, as well as the chance to drill our replacements which a trip to rest billets would give, for we've quite a good many new men now--filling the gaps left in our ranks; for since June 1st this regiment has suffered some pretty severe losses--and I believe they're the smallest of any regiment in the division. Yet, as a regiment...
...public offices in Newport and in Rhode Island, by his unrivalled collections of books, and by the long list of clubs with which he was connected. Prominent among the latter was the Crolier Club of New York, of which he was one of the earliest members and a constant and most generous benefactor. Hilast days were spent in editing a catalogue of his collections of angling bookplates which have been on exhibition at the Grolier Club...