Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fall, will read with interest a few facts on the relative merits of those teams as given in the Exonian. It says: "We have no grounds upon which to assume any superiority, and cannot, therefore, speak too encouragingly of victory this fall. Andover is trying, with every possible effort, to perfect the deficiencies of their team by constant training and practice. They are said to spend habitually from two to three hours each day at labor with the leather, and, although they fail to meet the average weight of our eleven, they are taking every precaution to excel on those...
...necessity of a liberal education is allowed. A possibility of there being a failure or a lack in a certain rigidly prescribed course is tacitly granted. But the college is not to be held responsible for this failure and its presence must be counteracted by the outside individual efforts of the students. But no allowance is made for the fact that where choice is possible it may happen that Greek O is very thinly attended while History XXV is crowded to the doors. This tendency of the student towards one course, coupled with the shunning of another would come under...
...instructors in Forensics has been received by the students with considerable satisfaction. For several years the forensic department of this university has not received the attention which it deserves. Last year an attempt was made to arouse some interest in the courses by forming voluntary advanced sections, but the effort was only partially successful. Now, however, several lectures will be given on the subject of forensic writing, lists of subjects in the different departments of study have been carefully prepared, and the entire system has been changed. Instead of the four forensics of former years, the seniors and juniors...
...shake off the lethargy to which it has been a prey for many years. Once a society of great activity and usefulness, it has in recent years almost faded out of the public notice, except for an occasional lecture delivered under its auspices. We hope that this time the effort to improve itself will be a real one and not quite as futile as many of those feeble attempts to renewed action made during our recollection. The society has the opportunity of making itself very useful in advancing the study of nature among students of natural history by discussions...
...last mile was one continuous spurt on Columbia's part to make up the lost distance, but though the effort was nobly sustained it was ineffectual, and our crew came over the line winner by a length, pulling 37 strokes to Columbia's 40. The time was. Harvard, 24m. 21s.; Columbia, 24m. 39s. The officials of the race were as follows: Referee, L. K. Hull, of Yale. Judges: For Columbia, Jasper Goodwin, G. C. Dempsey; for Harvard, R. C. Watson, A. Keith. Timekeepers, A. C. Cornell, A. T. French...