Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strong effort is being made by the artists of Boston to keep there Reynold's great painting "Automedon with the horses of Achilles," which has been on exhibition in the city for some weeks past...
From the tone of the Yale papers it is evident that a great effort will be made to send a strong crew to New London next year in the hope of carrying off the laurels from the crimson. Although we have every reason to expect success on the Thames next year, it may be that we can gain somewhat by following in their line of action as well as by profiting by our own experience. We learn from the News that every incentive is to be offered to rowing men in the shape of a "second eight" as well...
...base ball next year that will give the greatest satisfaction, we are sure, to all concerned. Our nine is to play under the same restrictions, as regards professional nines and trainers, as those governing the nines of the other colleges. This means that the Committee will make an effort to secure the cooperation of the other colleges in anti-professional measures,-and in this they have our best wishes,-but that if they fail in this, our nine will no longer be handicapped as it was. In such action as this, we are sure, every student will heartily support...
...read. In most cases some particular field will probably draw attention and make a merely general reading impossible. Above all read steadily; that is, do not draw out fifty books one month and only one or two the next. Find out how much you can digest and make an effort to accomplish that amount in a given time. [Dartmouth...
...trained faithfully, except that they were allowed to smoke; that the captain, laboring as he did under great personal disadvantages and though he did not have the sympathy of certain "know-alls" who croaked and condemned the nine at every step because the captain was a sophomore, made every effort to bring a good team into the field; that the members were only absent when sick or injured ; that, though they were naturally dispirited by their misfortunes, the nine showed by their splendid fielding record that they played for all they were worth and that where they failed...