Word: effort
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Gothic architecture and the poetry of Shakspeare in their wilder style, their higher emotion, their deep and solemn mystery. Coming to our own time, is it surprising that our architecture, our painting, our poetry, our murders, all betray a miserable want of purpose, of sincerity, of well-trained effort...
...best effort of the Pierian was the "Blumenlied" by Lange, which was played with feeling, and with due regard to expression. If they applied themselves more to music of this description, they would have more uniform success; for, while the movement from the Haydn Symphony was played well, still there was an unsteadiness in some parts, which proved them amateurs, which one would hardly have thought had he heard them play only the Blumenlied...
...make the smallest effort of thine...
...think, those who avail themselves of our laboratories, museums, and libraries. Harvard, therefore, can well be proud of her record in past and present; but if "Hopkins" is well managed, she will have a dangerous rival in the future, and it will behoove her to make all the effort she can to retain her present high position...
...classics be increased by some running commentary on the times, customs, and habits of the people they illustrate. As students, the greater part of us are too indifferent to study a history in connection with our reading, but would willingly listen to a course of lectures involving no further effort on our part than an occasional note. This is a want really felt, and we hope it soon will be supplied...