Word: girding
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...harder in their years at preparatory school than they ever do afterwards in college, are inevitably influenced by the contrasting difficulties of admission to the various universities whose fame is greatest throughout the land. Certainly the Harvard requirements are not of such a kind as to make school student gird up his intellectual loins for further frenzied effort...