Word: straining
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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Harper's Weekly announces that Mr. James Russell Lowell has yielded to his physician's orders and given up the course of lectures he had intended delivering on "The Old English Dramatists" before the students of the University of Pennsylvania. The labor and strain the work would involve were considered to be too much for him in his present state of health...
...centre of the population is moving westward and the West is opening up a large field for good work. What is wanted is strong young ministers able to bear the strain of the work...
...endurable because it is cheap. Most men are obliged to board at the cheapest place, but that is no reason why they should be forced into eating in the midst of nearly all imaginable discomforts. And, moreover, it is only putting off the difficulty for a short time; the strain on the resources of the University will be just as great when, in a short time, the number of men here has increased according to President Eliot's recent calculation in the Monthly. It is no small injustice to those men, who in the interval before the erection of another...
...been formerly. Yesterday, besides the referee's tug, there was only a freshman tug which got in the way before the start and delayed the crews in getting off. Perhaps it was the exposure to the cold which this occasioned that made several of the oarsmen succumb under the strain of the race. Stroke and seven of the seniors fainted at the finish, which is a little less than a mile and seven-eighths from the start. Bow of the sophomores was exhausted at the bridge, and stroke of the juniors became unconscious at that point, and did not come...
...failure of Yale to accept Harvard's proposal for a dual league is a disappointment though not a surprise to Harvard men. It was hoped that the Yale mass meeting would see their way to clear up the present strain and uncertainly, and at the same time greatly benefit athletics at both colleges, by agreeing to the articles. We are confident they would have done so if they had thoroughly understood Harvard's position. The grounds of objection seem to be still the number and place of the football games, and the eligibility of special students. Harvard has no wish...