Word: hards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...enthusiasm with which Professor Baker's talk was received last night augurs well for the continuation of our successes in debate. Hitherto the result only of hard work, they can be kept up only by increased effort and greater enthusiasm. If only those who had the privilege of listening to Professor Baker last night can pass on to their friends the thoughtful advice and the inspiration to personal endeavor which he gave, the chances for the selection of the ablest representatives in the contests with Yale and Princeton will be of the best...
Thanks to the steady, hard work of the clubs, and the courses in speaking, Harvard debaters have gained a high degree of thoroughness and sincerity of address. Those who have really done justice to their opportunities for practice and criticism have at least become ready, easy talkers, and methodical in argument...
...months after the battle of Stone River the two armies lay facing each other at a distance of thirty miles. Hard fighting had been tried without much effect, and each now tried, by cavalry raids, to cut the other's line of communications...
...life of Harvard as an institution of learning, but as a civilized community, none. That the demands of health and cleanliness can now be met with a fair degree of comfort and convenience is a privilege which, though it is generally taken as a matter of course, hard experience has taught us to appreciate and for which we are now heartily thankful...
...college, captains consciously allowed themselves to be influenced by favoritism, although the result of their selection may have justified a contrary surmise: but what is evident to any one who has watched Harvard athletics for twenty years is that the enormous recent growth of the University makes it hard for any captain or coach to find out the best material. Only the other day, one of the best football men who ever played for Harvard said to me, "Unless a fellow comes from Boston or one of the big schools in this neighborhood, he stands a small chance of getting...