Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...record of the eleven for this spring has been excellent and deserves a high amount of commendation. An examination of the account published this morning, will show that in almost every game the victory was gained in one innings. Longwood, which used to retire Harvard without effort, fell a victim to the good play of our eleven this spring, while other clubs of almost equal strength were easily worsted. These successes are the more praiseworthy and satisfactory, since they come from a source quite unexpected and fill up the gap made by our defeat in track athletics...
...Andover won without the least effort. Her team was evidently a strong, well-trained one; but Exeter showed that she could play a good game, until discouraged by the miserable pitching, and had her pitcher worked in his usual form the game would have certainly been a close...
...thought being brought together can easily be imagined, but the good resulting will not be confined to them. It will be felt in this community by the breadth of idea it will inevitably introduce here. The active interchange of thought which is the outcome of a properly directed club effort is certain to produce a higher intellectual standard among the members, and this cannot fail of a reflex action on the community in which they move and associate. In union is strength is true of intellectual effort as well as political or any other co-operation. The gentlemen...
...contest for the athletic cup is different from the other contests, in that a victory is a victory over a dozen colleges at once; every effort should be made to win this victory and when the means for making a good showing and possibly of being victorious, are as simple as they are, it seems as if we ought to contribute generously...
...knowledge that they are sure to meet a warm welcome should be incentive enough for them to try the experiment of an open-air concert. It is to be hoped that these few words of ours will have the effect of rousing the Glee and Banjo clubs to an effort that will be hailed with so much pleasure by all men in college...