Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this morning will perhaps serve to call particularly to mind the valuable service which has been rendered to the University as a whole, and particularly to the undergraduates, by that body. The Athletic Committee has always had a hard row to hoe, and its work is none the less arduous because it is carried on in a very quiet, unpretentious way. In spite of the delicacy of its position, half-way between the students and a Faculty which is rather unfavorably inclined toward athletics, the committee has succeeded in maintaining a standard of purity in athletics of which the University...
...those who remember the production then. That for the coming week will be vastly superior in every way, for the singers have gained a great deal by their year's training, and the staging will be of that very high excellence which has been attained only by months of arduous effort...
...training can not be followed by the mass of the students, whose interest in its progress and ultimate success must be in large part taken for granted. The men who row have not the stimulus of applause, or of frequent contests. Their work must be done alone, and is arduous in the extreme. They. more than any other athletic team, do disinterested service to the University. That it is not unappreciated, this afternoon's send-off must show...
...call the success of Harvard upon the water in this and subsequent years is largely dependent. Freshmen must recognize the situation in which the university is placed at the present time. For two years both our 'varsity and freshman crews have been unsuccessful, and the mettle, perseverance and arduous labor of every loyal Harvard man ought to be at the service of the men who are striving to regain her prestige on the water. For two reasons the response of the freshmen is important. They are to produce a crew which will do battle with the Yale and Columbia freshmen...
...raise three thousand dollars for the completion of the fund for Soldiers' Field, have begun their work of canvassing the college. We hope that every man may feel the responsibility of helping the collectors in their work by quick and liberal subscriptions. The duties of collectors are arduous and unpleasant at the least. The treatment which these men receive is often more like that which would be accorded a book agent; that they are fellow students, fulfilling legitimate obligations, is only too often overlooked. In this particular case, the object for which contributions are solicited is one which we ought...