Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale's Branford College team had a tougher fight on its hands yesterday than it had expected, but managed to grind out a 13 to 0 win over Dudley's Commuters...
...been disappointed in the results, even when compared with his Michigan team of last year. "There are several Harvard players who could make any team in the country," he thinks, although he admits that the academic standards at Cambridge make it tougher for his present pupils to devote themselves to football here than elsewhere. But even this isn't too important to the coach: wanting to win football games is what counts and apparently a Harvard man wants to win as much as anyone else...
This year the skaters face an even tougher schedule. An unusually high total of eight games is listed before the Christmas vacation, starting with BU Wednesday, December 1, and running through engagements with MIT, Brown, BU, and McGill. More than one of the traditional "breather" games has been erased from the card...
...coming years the Houses will have a tougher time doing their job than they have since the war. While the Administration probably will continue to keep the student body varied and representative, the College will contain fewer and fewer war veterans. Since the non-veteran has had less contact with large numbers of his countrymen, he is loss adaptable to the purposes of the House Plan than the veteran. For this reason the Houses, which have made a respectable start in their work, must now crack down on all the big and little faults which have so far slowed...
Actually, the man they might have seemed least familiar to would have been their own original chronicler, Clarence Day Jr. The Father that Clarence knew and drew was tougher to handle and harder to take...