Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...event of the year-the race with Yale In spite of the discouragement resulting from the ill-success of the past three years, the crew has worked this year with a faithfulness which has won for it the heartiest support of the university. It is everywhere felt that every effort has been made to send to New London the very best crew that can possibly be got together at Harvard. Neither time, practice nor energy has been spared in the effort. In the face of many serious difficulties, Captain Herrick has made a crew of which it may safely...
...more often for speculation. Persons who have delayed getting tickets have often been compelled to pay large premiums to get any seats at all. It is probably impossible to abolish wholly this evil of speculation, but by the new rule it will be reduced to a minimum. The effort to make the chances of individual purchasers more equal must also meet the approval...
...circulars signed by Professor Peabody which has recently been sent to a large number of students, including all the senior class, represent an effort to put into effect an idea which has occurred independently to many members of the University. Many senior have pieces of furniture which they do not care to take away with them, and which if sold, would bring nothing like their real value as measured by their capacity to do service in a student's room. A plan has been carefully arranged by which such articles can be loaned on proper terms to students who would...
...very glad to commend the effort now making for a concert by the Varsity Glee and Banjo clubs at New London on the eve of the intercollegiate race. Although the arrangements have not been perfected, it is highly probable that the concert will be given. New London will of course have many Harvard supporters on the evening of the 27th, and there can surely be no more pleasant and inspiring a preliminary to the contest than a Glee club concert. For many reasons the importance of the intercollegiate race cannot be overestimated. Without disrespect to college athletics in general, perhaps...
...class has not subscribed at all readily and there has been a manifest indifference to the need of the crew for money. Up to the present time but half of the necessary amount has been obtained. The fault is not with the management which is making every possible effort to raise the money, but with the class which will not do its duty in supporting one of its principal teams...