Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems almost useless to repeat our exhortation to men to come forward and make these weekly contests a success. But we cannot see the discouragement that such a response as has been made to their efforts must cause the management of the Athletic Association without making one more appeal to men in college. There must certainly be a great many men who have the ability that these meetings tend to develop who have made no effort to be present at them. The examinations will be over to-day, and we hope to see the men who have offered "grinding...
...Lehigh students are making an effort to have their athletic grounds sodden...
...this time of year, when everyone is in the midst of mid-year examinations, it may seem inopportune to urge men to make an effort to attend the chapel exercises in the morning. The exercises, however, take but a few moments, and come at a time when the short minutes they occupy can easily be spared even at this busy period of the year...
...which was thereby diminished. So that by determining the time of the occultation of these stars, whose positions are exactly known, the moon's position was ascertained more accurately than it has been heretofore. In addition to this work in co-operation with the Russian observers, a special effort was made to obtain photographs of the moon in the various stages of the eclipse. Photographs of the moon's spectrum were also taken, and these contribute in an indirect way to the study of light, the immediate result being a determination of colors...
...follows: "A newspaper approaches the ideal, then, in proportion as it lets its community see, honestly and accurately, just what the real life of the moment is; that is, in proportion as it makes its readers actually conscious of the present world of passion, of suffering, of effort and of joy, in which, as in an ocean, they pass their lives. The ideal newspaper, then, tells the whole significant truth about the daily life of its community, the honest and essential truth. But its truth is confusedly the truth of to-day. Its outlook is not eternity, but twenty-four...