Word: strains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...warmer feeling for colleges than for technical schools, because colleges are places for high aims, high opportunities and high spirits. "The college student, while learning to work intelligently and vigorously, should have to more work put upon him than he can carry without a prevailing sense of strain or hurry...
...lieutenant-governor from 1893 to the death of Governor Greenhalge in 1896, he began to take up the responsibilities which he bore so well during the next three years as Governor of the State. His labors in these years were a great strain upon him, for he tried to meet all the claims that his great popularity made upon him. While resting in Europe last summer he was appointed ambassador to Italy, but he has since refused the honor...
...former times, and would do more than any one thing to restore them to the place in College which they formerly held. At risk of repetition it must again be urged that Harvard is in serious danger of being cut out by others where she should strain every nerve to keep a firm foothold; and I believe that the above suggestions would do much, if put into practice, toward helping to establish a stronger representation from the central and western states. A WESTERN UNDERGRADUATE...
...will be held this afternoon at 3.30 on Soldiers Field. Every man in the University who has any ability in kicking is urged to come out. The reasons for not holding the contest sooner were that at the beginning of the season it was feared that the men might strain their legs, and later on it was impossible because so many men were laid up with injuries. For these reasons the kicking contests will be held hereafter in the spring...
Since the victory over Pennsylvania, the football team has been in secret practice the greater part of the time in preparation for the final game with Yale. The strain of hard training in the early part of the season caused by the fact that the games with Columbia, West Point and the Carlisle Indians all came in the month of October, followed immediately by the severe work of preparation for the Pennsylvania game, brought the men to such a fineness of physical condition that it became necessary at once to handle them with the greatest care, and to watch their...