Word: effort
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...amount of knowledge that excuses Sophomores from these additional hours of recitation is not great. The ability to read easy French prose can be acquired without much effort during the summer months. An hour of real study daily would do it. A fair knowledge of the grammar, especially of the verbs, makes up for some deficiency in translating. As to pronunciation, it faciltates the study of any language not to neglect this in the beginning. It is a strain on the memory to try to retain words of which the sound is unknown...
...Cambridge crew, the Review says, was in all respects superior to the Oxford; but the race was very close, owing to the superiority of the Oxford boat. If there had been less wind, the Cambridge crew would have won with far less effort; had the wind been stronger, the Oxford would have won. The refusal of the Oxford crew to accept the invitation of the Mayor of London receives the hearty approval of the paper, and leads it into a train of moralizing which is, to say the least, not strikingly original. It occurs to the writer that the crews...
...Shakspere* Society lately formed in England, Germany, and this country. From a notice of the Society sent out by Mr. Furnivall, its founder, we gather a few facts not yet generally known, in the hope that Harvard students may not be backward in appreciating the value of an effort "to do honor to Shakspere, to make out the succession of his plays, and thereby the growth of his mind and art." Mr. Furnivall complains that there are no such students of Shakspere in England as may be found in Germany, and gives as a reason the narrow way in which...
...upon recitations, and afford them little reason for self-felicitation. If any one is to be benefited by this change, it is the instructors, who will be impelled to make their exercises more interesting, instructive, and necessary than some of them are at present. This may cost them some effort, but that effort, we assure them, will be truly beneficial. Had it been desired to remove one of the restraints we labor under without any possibility of evil result being incurred, we presume to suppose that voluntary prayers would have been the alteration made. Though Ralph Waldo Emerson has objected...
...those ignorant of artistic rules. There is nothing that will so draw a man out of himself, and make him forget the petty annoyances of a work-a-day world, as the society of pictures. A book may fail to fix our wandering thoughts, because in reading an appreciable effort of attention is always necessary; but no effort is required to get into the spirit of a beautiful landscape, or to lose one's self in the contemplation of a beautiful face...