Word: strenuous
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...department has no head. It is a disgrace to Harvard College that it has no full professorship in German. This condition of irresponsibility probably accounts for the absolute lethagy which has characterized this department of instruction. Some one instructor ought to be made to feel the necessity of making strenuous efforts to improve the students' facilities for pursueing so important a branch of study. We cannot sufficiently deplore the loss which the college sustains in the departure of Mr. Wheeler, whose able teaching has been much admired and enjoyed by all those who have taken his courses this year...
...struggle for the championship of the American College Base-Ball Association for the coming season promises to be a most interesting one. At all the colleges more than the usual enthusiasm prevails, and each seems to be making the most strenuous efforts to turn out "the best nine...
...prominent member of the committee of the Columbia Boat Club writes to one of the members of the CRIMSON board that their crew are making strenuous efforts to defeat Harvard at New Haven this year...
...WOODMAN, Sec'y.The '86 editors of the Lampoon having retired from active management of the paper leave a great weight upon the shoulders of the present board. It will require strenuous efforts to keep up to the standard of excellence which '86 has set. The present editors realize that in order to do this they will need a more generous support, both in a literary and in a financial way from the college at large. The freshman class has been very backward in contributing. At this time last year, several editors had been taken on from '88. It is hoped...
...dissatisfaction at the conduct of this gentleman toward the students. Many of his acts have bordered slightly on the tyrannical with no rules to support them. It is true that in past years, and even at present, perhaps, some of the students have irritated the bursar by their strenuous efforts to acquire rooms despite his efforts to the contrary. Notwithstanding this, the innocent should not be made to pay the penalty due the guilty. At least there should be formulated a set of rules governing the action of the bursar that the students who are compelled to feel the weight...