Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...having the personal supervision and advice of Mr. Sears are apparent. There is always, necessarily, more or less time lost in getting the candidates for the freshman football team into regular training, and at this season of the year, when each day of practice is so valuable, every effort should be made to increase the chances which the freshmen have for defeating Yale '92. Much will be done in aiding their eleven if the freshmen vote the proposed scheme...
...Campbell and Hall are the Columbia players who have won the championship of America, every effort must be made and all the best and most earnest tennis players should turn out, but not those who have absolutely no show of winning...
...apparent, both from the number of men who turned out to practice and from the aptness they showed for their work, that with faithful practice Harvard can put a strong team in the field this fall. Feeling certain as we do that the captain will spare no effort to develop the strongest team possible from the players in the college, we look with some confidence to the result of his work. Hard work will do wonders; and wonders need to be done this year by the team that wins the championship...
Since the defeat of the freshman nine at New Haven the management has been making an effort to arrange another game with the Yale freshmen, hoping in this final test that the nine might retrieve its former misfortune, It declared itself ready to assume all the necessary expense, etc. The Yale men, however, refuse to make arrangements for another game on any considerations whatever...
...Haven Club, numbering some two hundred and fifty members, is making every effort to make the affair a complete success, and the courts are in the best possible condition. About fifty out of town players will be present. among them men from Harvard, Yale, and Trinity, and the tournament will consequently be very well contested. The preliminary rounds will be the best two out of three sets, with advantage games in the deciding set, and the finals the best three out of five, with advantage throughout. The play on the first day will commence...