Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...agitation is the beginning of effort for a worthy and feasible end, and therefore must promote the best interests of the laboring classes. Strikes are a necessary evil. McNeil's Labor Movement...
...trustees of Cornell University are making every effort to induce President and Mrs. Cleveland to attend the next commencement of that institution...
...believe that there are men in college who could win in New York who yet never suspect that they have much ability. I wish, therefore, to urge every man who visits the gymnasium to try his powers thoroughly before resting satisfied that he is useless in the effort to regain Harvard's athletic glory. The gymnasium is often empty for those who might dislike observation in their practice. Mr. Lathrop is every ready to help beginners...
...services will be held at the Globe next Sunday evening, which is Christmas night. The Rev. Phillips Brooks will conduct this meeting and preach the Christmas sermon. It is hoped that as many men in the chorus who are in Cambridge or Boston on Christmas night will make an effort to be present at this service, since the chorus will be necessarily weakened by the absence of many men who do not live near Boston...
...which, in this instance, did the board great injustice-as it threw upon them the burden of fathering a wholly individual piece of opinion. Appreciating as we did the great difficulties the Lampoon works under, the surprising reputation it has maintained for so many years, and the great effort it is making this year to make itself still more pleasing to the eye and amusing to the spirit, we did the only thing we could do-apologized for the criticism in question in our next number, and stated that it was an individual and not an editorial hallucination...