Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have to go as early to get good seats as though they had not paid an extra price. The difficulty is made more by the ease with which the tickets may be counterfeited. Indeed, it is reported that counterfeits have already appeared. If it is not too late some effort should be made to correct the mistake so that those men who have paid for seats may get them...
...effort will be made to establish at New York or Brooklyn a medical school to be connected with Cornell...
...been spent on remaking courts, and a payment of $100 has been made on a die for medals. The debt of the association. which was originally $850, contracted in 1887 for the construction of courts, has now been reduced to $250, and an effort will be made during the coming year to pay off this remainder...
...this year. With a class of the size of Ninety-three we may certainly expect a creditable club. Its success, however, as well as that of every other college organization, depends ultimately upon the students. If the club is to be representative the men themselves must make a personal effort to have it such; and certainly incentives to this end are not wanting. The freshman clubs of previous years have all been very enjoyable organizations, and each year an increased number of concerts have been given and invitations received. Every successful candidate at the next trial, therefore, may be assured...
Under "Topics of the Day" an effort is made to justify tutoring. It is hardly successful. The whole tone of the article rather inclines the reader to the opinion that the writer has not the matter very clearly delined in his own mind, and does not more than half believe much that he says...