Word: strenuous
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...situation the surest remedy of all-when men won't want to be members of the teams--with the result that soon the teams will become discouraged through lack of material and the men will peacefully lay down their burdens and lend their efforts to other things where the strenuous life is not so universally practiced...
From now on the real hard work comes. As yet there has been practically no strenuous rowing--in fact not a single time row has been taken over the full course this spring. For two miles the crew has abundant speed, and there is reason to believe that they can go the full course equally fast. The results so far have given the University that confidence in the crew's ability that is as necessary to victory as too much confidence is fatal...
...academic, and revel in rest and recreation; remembering always a fact which few ever do remember-- that the vacation should be the time to recuperate from the strain of College work, rather than that the first few weeks of January should be the time to recover from an over-strenuous vacation...
...hardship, of difficulties unforeseen, but it is a vocation that demands the best in men, and in the coming generation it is to be more important than ever in the past. Let us not ask for easy lives but for strength to meet the tasks that come through strenuous lives...
...work of the Freshman football squad yesterday was of a more strenuous nature than it has been previously. The squad was given practice in falling on the ball, then the backs were made to pick the ball from the ground while running. After a short drill in catching punts the squad was divided and two teams were put through a preliminary signal drill. The makeup of the first team was: Centre, Cotting; guards, Maguire and Dunlap; tackles, MacKay and Strong; ends, Rogers and Harding; quarter, Johnson; half-backs, Davis and Pope; fullback, Minot...