Word: strenuousness
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...controversy, however, has arisen recently over the very nature of this foundation, and, strange to say, a nephew of the founder of Johns Hopkins University is the one most strenuous in condemning the policy of the present board of trustees. "President Gilman's plans," this gentleman claims, "have so far resulted in one or two discoveries by one or two of his professors which were, doubtless, appreciated by the most learned people here and abroad, and his plans have served to further educate already well educated post-graduates of Northern colleges who come here, secure paying fellowships, avail themselves...
...alumni of Princeton College have been making strenuous efforts to raise the money required to found the three new professorships in the proposed School of Philosophy. It is believed that if the graduates of the college succeed in raising $60,000 to endow one chair, to be known as the "alumni chair," the money to endow the other two chairs will be given without delay. A committee of the alumni have prepared a circular setting forth the generally prosperous condition of the college and requesting gifts for the "alumni chair...
...tobacco is that wherever means have been taken to prevent its use, it will be found to have acquired the stronger hold. Noticeably is this so in Russia, where formerly the punishment for the first offence was a whipping, for the second, death; and in England, where the most strenuous efforts were made to prevent its introduction a movement which was largely impelled by King James' famous "Counterblast to Tobacco." The lecturer then gave an analysis of tobacco smoke, showing that it is largely composed of substances poisonous to the system, and pointed out the effect which each ingredient produced...
...fill the professorships in our great universities, and indeed will come to supersede men as teachers and investigators in many branches of study. "As a rule," he says, "the old style teaching of languages, history and literature by men has always been mechanical, unsympathetic, spiritless, or in its more strenuous forms merely pedantic, compared with that new and higher type which the native enthusiasm and conscientiousness and insight and teaching gifts of trained women are certain to bring about in the near future." He speaks of "the atrocious text-books and scholastic methods" of the past, for which men were...
...city is always in demand, and the railroads found that some students were making a speculation of their privilege, and that their tickets were rapidly finding their way to the "scalpers." To prevent this, it was necessary to refuse the privilege altogether. However, it is not impossible that if strenuous efforts were made in time this year that rates could be obtained, but it must not be looked upon as a favor to be had merely for the asking...