Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that Dartmouth will make a strong effort for re-instatement in the College Baseball League at the coming convention in Springfield. It is expected that with Harvard and Princeton "disposed off" by the new regulations, her application will be successful...
...University of Pennsylvania were reported to oppose the resolutions, and the students heartily shook hands with the faculty on that point. "It is well known," said Mr. Booth, of Yale College, "that the faculty and students, to a man, oppose the resolutions." Harvard's students would assist in any effort to stop the movement, and did not believe in the action of their instructors...
Football has been abandoned at Amherst and hereafter the effort, of the college will be entirely directed towards the improvement of the nine...
...expected to increase with the opening of the next season. Dr. McCosh says the department will be the most complete of any college in America or any other country, except Germany. The faculty is making a new distribution of studies, required by the addition of new branches. An effort is being made to erect a building for the accommodation of the Art School, at an expense of $40,000, to enable work in that department to begin in September. The plan devised by the committee of Eastern colleges for avoiding excesses in intercollegiate athletics was laid before the board...
...effort is being made through the columns of the press to celebrate the coming birthday of Washington, by the donation of a fund to be raised by voluntary subscriptions to the Washington and Lee University. A few years ago a number of representative men, who were interested in higher education, formed a "Centennial Organization for the Better Endowment of Washington and Lee University." The object of this organization was to raise a fund of a million dollars to endow this leading university of the South. Of this sum, about $400,000 has been raised, one half being received from citizens...