Word: strenuously
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first organized hockey practice of the year, 35 men yesterday turned out on the Soldiers Field rinks. The players were formed into tentative teams and had short scrimmages, but no attempt was made to hold a long, strenuous practice such as will come later in the year. It was the first time on the ice this season for most of the candidates, and the afternoon was spent more in getting back into hockey form than in any effort at team play...
Football, the most strenuous of American out-door sports, claimed five victims during the 1919 season. The number of deaths--the smallest in years--was five less than in 1918, and seven under the toll of two years ago. There were 18 lives lost during the 1916 season...
With today's practice the second team brings to a close a strenuous but successful season, during which all of the three games played were won and a total of 52 points amassed, as compared with their opponents' 20. Captained by T. C. Wales '21 until he was promoted to the University squad, and coached by James L. Knox '98 they have had altogether an enviable season...
After this a strenuous combined signal drill and dummy scrimmage ensued, in which rather more tackling was allowed than in such practice before...
...maintained. If the college is only a place, as some critics have charged, where a young man spends four years very pleasantly and not quite without profit, it holds a poor position among educational institutions, and is a doubtful luxury rather than a necessity in a strenuous land. But if it is a community in which young men are striving to make the most of the great opportunities intellectual, social, and physical offered them in its free air; seeking to develop themselves for life in a large world by studying what men have thought and done and learned; then...