Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Candidates from the Sophomore class for the position of second assistant manager of the University track team are requested to report to R. C. Floyd '11, Hollis 28, tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock. The competition this year will be unusually short but strenuous. No previous experience is required of candidates for the position, and it is hoped that a large number of Sophomores will report...
Candidates from the Sophomore class for the position of second assistant manager of the University track team will be called out immediately after the vacation and should report to R. C. Floyd '11, Hollis 28. The competition this year will be unusually short but strenuous No previous experience is required of candidates for the position, and if is hoped that a large number of Sophomores will report...
There are men of power and insight who condemn the University teams for their effect upon both these elements; for, they say, the strenuous physical work of athletes exhausts their vitality to a point where serious application to academic pursuits is impossible. They assert, moreover, that interest in the games draws the attention of every undergraduate away from his studies...
...Star football team, made up of members of the Law School, is an organization without a prototype, at least in the history of Harvard. It is unusual for men after leaving college to feel energy and initiative enough to adopt so strenuous an avocation as football. The team, which will play the Carlisle Indians this afternoon, has the support of the Athletic Association and deserves that of the undergraduates...
Just at this time every year, the undergraduate feels that he is entitled to a breathing spell as far as his academic work is concerned. Hour examinations are over, and there is a general sentiment that no more really strenuous study is required until after the Christmas vacation. Mid-year examinations at present are likely to appear very distant and unimportant to the work of tomorrow and next week...