Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Faculties. Yale may "boss" her Faculty: other colleges have not yet got quite so far, as witness the entire suspension of Inter collegiate foot-ball at Harvard last year. In view of Yale's course last year and this year, to indict us for failure in an impossible effort to induce our Trustees and Faculty to gratify Yale in the revival of a rule in whose suspension Yale herself acquiesced willingly enough last year, is just a little too much. Does Yale want the earth every year? She is willing to let magnanimity rule, so long as the cards...
...many men as possible will hear him, since hardly too high praise can be given such telling words as his. Something is needed to stir many men from their lethargy of thought and few speakers are so well fitted to accomplish just such work as Mr. Moody. An additional effort should be made to bring more men into personal contact with Mr. Moody...
...taken by the management to see, as far as it may be in their power, that those are brought into contact with Mr. Moody who will most profit by his work. This is the difficulty which always attends such work, and it is a difficulty to overcome which no effort should be spared...
...chairman of the anniversary committee has been informed by Mayor Russell that four flags used in decoration on the route of the torchlight parade, are missing, and that it is desirous that every effort shall be made to recover them, insomuch as the owner of three of the flags is a poor man, and can ill afford such a loss, while the fourth flag is one which was carried throughout the war by a resident of the city, whose heirs naturally attach great importance to its possession. It is urged that if any undergraduate was led by the enthusiasm...
...letter has been received from Mayor Russell to the effect that four flags used in decorating on the night of the torchlight procession are missing, and an effort is being made to recover them. If they are returned no questions will be asked...