Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...adopted, officers elected and instructed to place before the Overseers the petition for a room in Sever. The men who were interested in this were actuated solely by a desire to have some sort of dark room ready as soon after recess as possible. There has been no effort nor attempt made to exclude any who are eligible to membership. The men who issued the call sent notices to everyone they knew to be actively interested in photography. Had there been more time at their disposal they would certainly have called a public meeting. The petition has been presented...
...effort will be made to have the city of Boston put the playgrounds in Franklin Park in proper condition so that the Interscholastic baseball teams may play there...
...special request we reprint an article describing the provisions which have been made by New York and Boston graduates, through the football management, for a challenge cup for kicking. It is proposed to make every effort to train better backs for the eleven, and the challenge cup is offered by these graduates, all of whom are deeply interested, as an extra inducement to all men in the University who consider themselves at all likely to become good football kickers...
...topic of the lectures being given by Professor Lyon is one almost entirely new to students of the University. It was not until comparatively recently that American archaeologists made the first steps towards carrying out the projects of excavation and discovery in Babylonia and Assyria. In their first determined effort, however, they were signally successful, and the specimens of Babylonian books which they secured form the nucleus of a collection which it is to be hoped will increase from year to year as discoveries are made. It is upon this American collection together with the famous specimens accumulated by European...
...baked clay. The ruins from which these tablets have been taken are to be found in almost every part of the country above the Persian Gulf, which is now known as Babylonia and Assyria. Throughout the whole of this region traveling is difficult and dangerous, and although great efforts have been made by enthusiastic archaeologists, little has been accomplished when compared with the vast amount of research yet necessary to give the world a true conception of the topography of the ancient cities in this region. The French government was the first to make an organized effort for discovery. During...