Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...This shows that last year a gain of about $13,000 was made over the receipts of 1915-1916. However, expenses last year showed an increase of $18,000 over 1915-1916, but this amount would have been much larger if strenuous efforts had not been made in every department to curtail expenses...
...Lombard '17 will again be at the head of the Freshman squad, and may be assisted by several other former University players. Strenuous work for the yearling candidates will not commence until after the holidays, though light workouts will start within a week or two if weather conditions permit...
...several years Mr. Sheldon has been one of the commanding figures of the Eastern hemisphere in this country. He is noted as an international football expert, and stands out as an exponent of strenuous life in the open. During and after the war he served as chairman of the Australian Repatriation Commission, which was signally successful in its work of restoring captured Australian soldiers and sailors to their country. He also became famous for his work as a war statistician...
...moreover, have not the complicated problems arising here out of the fact that graduate students--whose object should be the attainment of specialized knowledge--are taught in the same classes with undergraduates--whose aim should be the acquisition of intellectual power. The work of a tutor is infinitely more strenuous and exhausting than that of a lecturer; the fact that the academic year in Oxford and in Cambridge is of only six months duration is an indication of the strain to which the teaching force is put. A tutorial system is, moreover, extremely expensive; the tutors and the general examination...
Speaking to 600 men in the Living Room of the Union last evening, Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip expressed the opinion that the trade conditions of the world are now in a most critical predicament and that if stoppage of trade and resultant starvation is to be averted strenuous measures must be taken at once to start commerce moving more freely and rapidly; he claimed that the future of this country is thus so closely related economically to the future of the rest of the world that the United States must assume a more friendly international attitude and enter some league...