Word: effort
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...upon the few men who have supported our boating interests so well in the past; as if the excellence of service already performed constituted a claim to additional work in the future. We must remember that there are various reasons why the Crew may not feel like making extra effort. If they do not make such effort we cannot complain; but if they are willing to make it we ought to feel very grateful to them. We cannot ask the Crew to row Cornell; but we may hope that as three of the men who will probably...
...journal if its new managers shall be able to maintain the high character which it has attained. We indorse the opinion that "it will be a desirable change in college journalism when the days of reviews and literary criticism are ended, and a period marked by more original, independent effort is begun," producing "fresh, live essays, filled with their authors' personalities and earnest with their own honest thoughts," even if, now and then, a fledgling, too early venturing upon untried opinions, shall vainly flutter, and fall to the ground...
...Berkeleyan for March contains an article on Robert Burns, which is open to the foregoing criticism, and the final paragraph shows the danger of continuing in speaking or writing after an effort has reached a natural conclusion, although it may be an error incident to inexperience; and in this case the omission of that paragraph would have saved the explicit declaration that "Burns was a man of talent and many excellences," in opposition to the general opinion that he was one of the greatest of the poetic geniuses of the eighteenth century...
...think that the track can be made from four to six seconds faster in the mile, and that this work will effect it. We omitted to say that the track will be carefully cindered to a depth of an inch, which will greatly add to its speed. An effort will be made to hold handicap games for "pewters" on several Saturdays in the spring, and to bolster up the interest in athletics generally...
...chief objects of the new system of Honours are: to incite students to greater effort for good scholarship, and to reward men who are, it is said, unjustly deprived of reward. The effect in the first respect will be, on the contrary, to diminish the total amount of true scholarship among the students. The value of honours under the new plan will be much less than that of the present ones. The very value of graduating honours at present is that there is a general interest as to who obtains them; there will be much less interest taken...