Word: harder
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...make this year's arrangement a permanent one. A saving of more than a week has been made in the time of the mid-year and annual examinations; and more rest is needed by us all than ever before, as undoubtedly instructors are working both themselves and their pupils harder. Hour examinations and theses have never been imposed in such numbers as this year. Apart from these considerations, the advance of the College in other ways should be marked by an abandonment of the old high-school notion that the shorter the vacations the larger the amount of knowledge gained...
...organizations would do well to imitate, and credit is due to Captain Sturgis for his excellent management of the team. We hope that their first success will not lead the men to relax their efforts, as the coming game for the championship of the country will probably be a harder...
...fall, with a proper cinder track on Holmes or Jarvis, we hope to see larger fields of starters and equally fast and close races. The time made in all the events proves that as athletes we are, with proper training, inferior to none. A little self-denial, more and harder exercise, and regular, quiet living, comprise the essentials to high condition. It would seem that men who have proved their ability to run well without much training ought to be willing, on another occasion, to forego for a few weeks their personal pleasures in order to secure for themselves...
...Freshman Nine played this season was with the AEtnas of Newport, R. I., on Wednesday, April 10, on Holmes Field. The Freshmen won the game by a score of 37 to 2, making only one error. If reports are accurate, the men of '81 will have a much harder task to beat the Yale Freshmen...
...that they are too difficult for our Glee Club. If "W" had lately heard the Glee Club sing, he would have recognized the fact that their music is hardly open to the charge of being too difficult; many of the College songs he would like sung are certainly much harder to master. There is no reason why we should not hear a few college songs from the Glee Club, but there is every reason why the Club should not devote itself exclusively to that kind of music. The members of the Club are chosen from among those with good voices...