Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exercises will be held this afternoon, when the forty-five juniors will be elected to the senior societies on the campus in the annual picturesque exercises. Braden, who is also captain of the track team, has warned the university that he fears that the excitement of the ordeal will have such an adverse influence on the track athletes that Yale may lose the dual athletic games with Harvard on Saturday...
...will find Lucy and Richard in "The Ordeal of Richard Feverall," by George Meredith, which you will instantly order and read; after that you will order and read "The Egoist," by the same; and then I will leave you to yourself. This recommendation, or rather order, is well worth the postage it has cost you. I have read "Richard" thrice; and "The Egoist" six times, nor am I yet done with them...
...Larger Lunacy"; Walter Lippman, "The Stakes of Diplomacy"; R. C. Long, "Colours of War"; Lucien Lord, "Leaves from the Signal Elm"; C. Maspero, "Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt"; E. L. Masters, "Spoon River Anthology"; W. B. Munro, "A Bibliography of Municipal Government in the United States"; F. S. Oliver. "Ordeal by Battle"; E. R. and J. Pennell, "Lithography and Lithogarphers"; Ernest Poole, "The Harbor"; Richard Pryce, "David Penstephen"; Annual Register, 1914; Upton Sinclair, editor, "The Cry for Justice"; Ellery C. Stowell, "The Diplomacy of the War of 1914"; Leslie Ward, "Forty Years of 'Spy'"; C. H. C. Wright, "A History...
...exceptionally good book relieved for the instructor the monotony of the reading, but brought little recognition for the writer. Now, by means of this list and the Phi Beta Kappa trophy, the spur of an honor, which is not hid under a bushel lends interest even to the ordeal of entrance examinations...
...that the November hour examinations are over a justifiable feeling of self-satisfaction doubtless pervades those men who have safely passed this trying ordeal. There is, perhaps, a pardonable tendency to indulge in a little ease and recreation. After unusual exertion, self-pity is natural, and it is pleasant to pursue the Siren, Self-indulgence. But therein lurks the ever-present danger of demoralization. Again we warn all students, and especially those new to the ways of the University and as yet unadapted to university life, not to abate their zeal in doing their prescribed college work, now that they...