Word: strenuousness
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...four eights were out on the water for three-quarters of an hour, the longest practice on the harbor so far this season. This marks the beginning of more strenuous training for the University squad, as it is probable that from now on the coaches will begin to groom their charges in the finer points, combining this with longer daily work-outs...
...March 3 the University met Yale at the Arena and lost 3-0. The squad showed the effects of the three strenuous preceding games and lacked the aggressiveness which had characterized its earlier contests. The game was slow and uninteresting, two of Yale's goals being made in the last session when the Crimson defense had been shifted to aid in the attack...
...Crimson sextet, although at the end of a strenuous season, will be at its full strength when it clashes with the Blue tonight at 8.15 o'clock in the Arena in the second game of the 1923 series with Yale...
...explanation is ready, and it is one that has been heard often. Americans take their sports in deadly earnest; they go into strenuous training, and make it their business to win. The English, on the contrary, are more or less indifferent to the results; they are more concerned with the incidental pleasure and profit of competitive exercise. The Oxford-Harvard debate of last year, though in a quite different field, can be regarded as a symbol for this attitude. The University debaters gave a serious, well-developed argument, that easily won the decision of the judges; but their opponents, talking...
Last night at the Arena, the University hockey team went down to defeat by a score of 2 to 1 at the hands of the B. A. A. sextet. The contest was hard fought throughout, and was marked by some of the most strenuous hockey yet put up by the Crimson skaters or any of their opponents. Time after time the forward lines skated all the way down the ice and seemed in a position to score, only to have their efforts broken up by desperate defense work. There was no "letting-up" at any time. It was a continuous...