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Practice during the past week has been of a strenuous nature. The distance men are increasing their daily work-outs, while the sprinters have been concentrating on starts under the direction of E. A. Teschner '17. Teschner was a member of the track team during the years 1915-1916, and holds the University record for the 100-yard dash, 9 4-5 seconds...
...colleges; and this year the attendance at the whole series has been larger than ever before. Although the severity of the injuries suffered, and especially the danger to life, have been materially diminished by the changes in the rules made a dozen years ago, football remains a rough and strenuous sport in which injuries are often received that impair the efficiency of the players for a couple of weeks, or more...
...basketball team will open their season this afternoon when they face the Tufts yearlings in the Freshman Gymnasium at 4 o'clock. The squad was given a rest yesterday after their strenuous tussle on Wednesday with the University basketmen, so all the first string players will be ready to answer the call this afternoon. The yearlings showed a decided improvement in their final workout, which capped a week of gruelling practice in preparation for today's contest...
...frankly, out of a job. Even the fact that the majority of his aims have been accomplished leaves him unmoved. So long as he continues to be "patriotic", there is one thing certain; the Irish will not have to look far when they feel in the need of a strenuous argument...
There is considerable competition to enlist in the battalion of editors, and that, too, is a surprising thing. I met a young undergraduate who informed me that he was one of sixty-five competitors for the post of editor. He was undergoing a strenuous ten weeks of trial and emulation, so strenuous that already some forty had fallen out of the race. At Oxford I doubt if you would find six undergraduates who would spend ten minutes competing for the post of editor. In fact, my recollection is that at the close of the academic year, when the editorial chair...