Word: strenuousness
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...strenuous singal and dummy scrimmage drill, coupled with an exhibition of Penn State plays by Coach Knox's second team, were the main features of the University football practice on Soldiers Field yesterday. The black-jerseyed players came in near the close of the afternoon and, for the benefit of the Crimson squad, went through a dozen or more of the most probable plays which tomorrow Stadium invaders will uncover. No regular scrimmage was held with the scrubs...
...Jenkins for the most part on end runs. The former 1924 back is exceptionally fast and slippery and will have an excellent chance of circling the Indiana wings if he once gets going. Gehrke will do most of the punting for the Crimson and he will have a strenuous task in outkicking Captain Kyle of the Indiana team, who is rated as one of the best punters in the west, his efforts in this direction often reaching 50 or 60 yards in length...
Most people, and perhaps in a peculiar degree the American people, tend in the busy life of the world to save themselves from strenuous thought by taking refuge in the opinions of their associates, of the men in like occupations, of the party or group to which they belong. This saves some of them, indeed, from eccentricity, and from irrational extremes; but it does not absolve men from responsibility for the correctness of their opinions, or save the nation from the consequences of their errors. The fact that others make the same mistake is no excuse. Yet people...
...time, her visit to this country has been one round of applause. We Americans have a way of exhausting our distinguished visitors with an elaborate program of events, accompanied by crowds of curious onlookers. Even the Prince of Wales, it is said, found his American tour as strenuous as any exercise he knew. Madame Curie has been subject to the same American treatment. Hospitality, however, is much better overdone than underdone; whence the University's aim to give Madame Curie as warm a welcome as she has received anywhere...
Theodore Roosevelt advocated the strenuous life and Thomas Edison says that four hours' sleep is enough, but we have a right to our own opinion upon the subject. If living a strenuous life means being continually ill it would be better to settle down to a reasonable gait and enjoy life more and longer. Perhaps we would then need fewer doctors. --University of Washington Daily...