Word: strained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regularity of work on account of their being given utterly without method and usually in a bunch at the end of the term. We hope that under the new regulations some attention will be paid to method, and avoidance of the crowding of work and its attendant worry and strain. The best recommendations of the Overseers have been adopted; those that have in view better and more regular work. Conscientious, hard-working men they will not affect to any degree, but they will get work out of men who have heretofore done nothing...
...second and final heat in the tug-of-war brought the meeting to a close. Columbia won half an inch on the drop, but this was soon recovered by Harvard, with half an inch more. The strain was clearly too much for Perry, however, and at the end of two minutes, Columbia had pulled an inch of the rope to their side. From this time they kept increasing their advantage, until they had 5 inches at the end of four minutes, and a foot when time was called. The arrangements on the shoulders of the Columbia rope men evidently gave...
...four hour examinations, have also a special report. We cannot see what can be gained by such a state of affairs; on the contrary, there is much that is of the greatest hindrance to a man. No one, when so driven, can do himself justice on anything, and the strain of the mid-years is practically repeated without the chance of freedom from other college duties. If hour examinations must continue a feature of our college, let them come systematically, let there be some agreement between instructors, so that men will not have to neglect shamefully the work...
...world by using up vital forces which might otherwise prolong it. It is often more important after forty that a man should arrange for constant and regular physical exercise than it is in the years when his physical powers are in the freshness of their early vigor; and the strain which men put upon themselves in active business or professional life is now so great that, unless they faithfully develop their physical resources as a matter of fidelity to their own selves, they constantly impair their vitality and consume their strength. With all that is said for athletics among...
...freshman crews. It is not wise for three crews to row a race over the course at New London, and neither Harvard or Columbia will admit Yale to a "three-cornered" race. It is also out of the question to row a second race, as Yale wishes, for the strain on a freshman crew would be too severe and the expense of a longer stay at New London too great. Before our freshmen can row Yale they must beat Columbia, and this we trust they will do next June...