Word: strenuous
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...dinner given the members of the Association at Sherry's on Tuesday night by the Alumni Council of Columbia. President Eliot made a short impromptu speech on the "strenuous life." On Wednesday, December 31, President Parkin of Lower Canada College, a representative of the trustees of the Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund, explained to the association the purposes and scope of the fund...
...Before you is a strenuous battle, fiercer than any cavalry charge -- the battle of economics, of society. Its issue will effect the foundations of government and involve all the relations of life. There will be the shadows, the repulses, the defeats, but if you do your duty there can be nothing better...
...hand, is graceful, dignified and highly suggestive. "The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory," read before the Phi Beta Kappa in 1898, is perhaps the best work in the book. The moral it teaches might be remembered to great advantage today by many of those in quest of the strenuous life. One bit, in a description of a recent Harvard-Yale football game, seems at this time particularly apropos...
...game of a week ago Saturday are still much in evidence. The chief fault to be criticised is the one that has existed throughout the season, slowness both in the line and back of it. The forwards are strong and heavy but play in a lifeless way and the strenuous efforts of the coaches during the week to correct this fault have met with only partial success. The backs start slowly, depending almost entirely on the ability of the line-men to open up big holes for them. In interference the team shows good possibilities. The guards have been very...
...life of the man of Southern France is a happy medium between the lazy, and therefore melancholy existence of the Spaniard, and the strenuous, rugged life of the Northerner. In this southern society where man is more easy-going and gallant than hardworking, nearly all responsibility falls on woman. Always pious and valiant, she bears on her shoulders all the duties of the home, and has won for herself the affection and admiration of all Frenchmen...