Word: hardship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...chosen and excellent place in this University for a seed ground for the development and spreading of their ideals, and that although their number was small, they should not be discouraged, as it was rapidly growing. President Eliot then pointed out that as result of their generations of hardship, they had lost their physique and martial spirit, and advised and them go to in for more out-of-door life and to enter and the militia. He gave them credit for two great qualities, their beautiful family life and their power of intelligently directed, assiduous, and judicious labor...
Those who follow in his vocation today have an opportunity only less than He himself had. The life of the ministry is one of hardship, of difficulties unforeseen, but it is a vocation that demands the best in men, and in the coming generation it is to be more important than ever in the past. Let us not ask for easy lives but for strength to meet the tasks that come through strenuous lives
...seems rather an unnecessary limitation. If seats at previous Yale games had been open to public sale we should more readily concur with the action of the Corporation, but since over 3,000 graduate applications could not be filled for the game two years ago in the Stadium, the hardship will probably fall, not on the public, but upon graduates who are most anxious to see the game. These graduates who are unable to secure seats will, no doubt, appreciate the care which is taken for their safety, and if they do not complain it is not for the undergraduates...
...venture in your columns to revive the ancient outcry against the unpardonable obstructions on Boylston street bridge after a football game. It is sufficient hardship for the large crowd always attendant upon a Saturday game to cross the river within the narrow palings of the bridge; but when several automobiles and carriages pass over at the same time, but in the opposite direction, insult is indeed added to injury. It would seem that we had returned to the triumphal procession of the Romans, and that while the chariots pass along, the people as well as the bridge groan. An effective...
Perhaps the most interesting part of the lecture was that in which actual rescues were vividly described with slides to illustrate some of the most thrilling experiences of a life-saver's career, including almost incredulous accounts of hardship and suffering...