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...opinion that exists in some quarters, the professional courses show an increase in the number of their students in the current year (1904-05) and that the School as a whole "has always been, is now, and is intended to be, a place for steady work and the most strenuous endeavor on the part of both its teachers and its students." That this is not an empty claim is indicated further on in the report by the fact-that the average working time for the four-years' course in mining and metallurgy is fifty-two hours a week, or nearly...
...effects of too much organized cheering are obvious. During recent years both in Cambridge and away the home team has repeatedly been entirely rattled by the well meant and strenuous endeavors of its own partisans. The bad effect is due to two factors: the first, to the feeling of the players that their partisans are over anxious and dubious of the ability of the players to do what is expected of them; and second, to the incessant noise, which has much the same confusing effect as a boiler shop, or a train in a tunnel, so that at the time...
...Class Day sufficiently strenuous without any Statue exercises? Early in the morning the Seniors go to Chapel. Hardly is this over when they are lined up on the march to Sanders Theatre. After the exercises there, which are pretty long, the spreads, club and private, are on. And in the evening there is dancing at Memorial and the Gymnasium. Is not this enough? Previously it has been the custom to cram in some Statue exercises, at which people made lots of noise, and go hot, and dusty, and covered, with confetti, but this year it seems necessary to give...
...Hale '03, "The Strenuous Life"--Theodore Roosevelt...
...Independence," Hoar; G. D. Frost '04; "The Rising in 1776," T. B. Read; E. H. Furman '04, "Ballad of the East and West," Kipling; W. P. Grant '04, "Cooper Institute Speech," Lincoln: F. I. Haber, '03, "The Bivouae of the Dead" T. O. Hara; M. Hale '03, "The Strenuous Life," Roosevelt; R. T. Henshaw '04, "The Resene of Esmeralda," Huggy P. Hill '03, "The Liberties of Ireland." R. Grattan; G. W. Hinckley '03, "Clive," R. Browning: F. Holdsworth '04, "The Southern Negro," H. W. Grady; R. C. Johnson '04, "A vision of War," Ingersoll; E. C. Kerans '04, "Centralisation...