Word: strained
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Long years had he moodily listened for the sound of that magic strain...
...sweeter by far is the strain of the tale...
...more, however great the strain...
X.The next is a poem - a touching strain - by a gentleman of the same class. We readily understand how it is that Freshmen should be the butt of the upper classes, but why they butt at themselves is beyond comprehension...
...comment upon the sadness of the cases in question, but the lesson they contain cannot be too strongly emphasized. This is the season when hard work is most fatiguing, and yet most necessary. An ambitious student, trusting to the approaching vacation for rest and recovery, is tempted to strain every nerve, and, before he is hardly conscious of his danger, he may do himself irreparable injury. Even the strongest constitution and the most faithful exercise will not enable a man persistently to deprive his mind of needful rest; and if he gives to study the hours which belong to sleep...