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Word: strenuousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1910
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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN INVALUABLE PRECEDENT. | 11/23/1910 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ALL-STAR TEAM. | 11/16/1910 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN HUMBLE WARNING. | 11/11/1910 | See Source »

Yale Crew Quarters, Gales Ferry, Conn., June 15, 1910.--After the strenuous eleven-mile row of yesterday, the Yale university and freshman eights were given light work today. In the freshman boat a temporary change was made, Gregg replacing Walker at 6. The latter is slightly indisposed at present, but will return within a few days. Both eights tried several racing starts. In the afternoon all the crews went for an easy paddle up-stream instead of toward the Navy Yard as usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Crews Given Easy Practice | 6/16/1910 | See Source »

...faces this season a more difficult problem in the development of the baseball team than he has met in the three years that he has coached the University teams. To get the best men for the vacant positions will require careful selection and training, and the probability f unusually strenuous competition in a large squad of candidates is the only favorable indication at present. Coach Pieper has had two very successful seasons, and we look to him and to Captain Lanigan to develop a winning nine even under less favorable conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BASEBALL COACH | 1/6/1910 | See Source »

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