Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...base-ball players, professional rowers and professional athletes generally far surpass collegians in their specialties. Yet there are people who would rather see contests between collegians than professionals. The reason is that no taint of jockeying attaches to what the college boys do. There is every motive for extreme effort, and public opinion would discountenance every victory by a trick. This trait of disinterested honesty gives a special interest to expressions of political opinion by college men. Moreover, as they are alert in forming opinions, an idea of what the progresive intelligence of the country thinks on current topics...
...action of the managers of the Harvard assemblies in giving their surplus to the crew is extremely generous and praiseworthy. The manager of the crew is making a determined effort to pay off the accumulated debt, and to conduct the affairs of the crew as economically as possible. Such unexpected gifts are very welcome, and are especially useful at this season of the year, when bills come in and must be paid...
...Yale College faculty have just been made public. The faculty voted to prohibit all athletic sports in the future, owing to the fact that the students disobeyed the injunction put upon them previous to the Yale-Harvard game, and celebrated their victory in the most frolicsome style. A strong effort is being made by the students to have the vote rescinded, and thus far they have succeeded in getting the faculty to hold the matter in abeyance for one week. Should the faculty refuse to reconsider the matter, all college athletics will have to be dropped. The boat races will...
...necessary for the Committee of the Faculty on Athletics to send out a second circular urging them to answer the questions which were sent to them a week ago. Such thought-lessness on the part of the men is absolutely inexcusable. When the faculty is making an earnest effort to get at the root of the athletic question, the least that men can do is to co-operate with it fully and frankly. We think there are few students for whom this vital question does not have some interest; if there are any for whom it has none, shame...
...have been sent to them by the committee from the faculty. Though every one was expressly asked to send in his replies to the questions before Wednesday last, there still remains a large number to be accounted for. It is a shame that, when the faculty is making every effort to look at the athletic question in a fair-minded way and with the support of facts, the students should not respond more generously. It is a very simple matter to sit down for a few moments and answer these questions. It is a poor way to obtain the freedom...