Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...John, of Kansas, Col. Bain, of Kentucky, and Hon. John B. Finch, of Nebraska, the three foremost temperance speakers of today, are now stumping Massachuusetts in favor of "no license." An effort is making to have them speak in Sanders Theatre at some early date. If successful it will be a rare treat for the college and for Cambridge people. Mr. Finch is the most polished orator and closest platform reasoner of all the speakers now engaged in the temperance work, and will compare favorably with any elocutionist in the land. It is reported that a gentleman of influence...
...would suggest in view of the nearness of the game with Yale which '87 has soon to play, that the freshman event. The class which supports the eleven has the right to demand that every effort be made to ensure success on the part of the eleven, and this will not be done unless this measure is taken. It will certainly be a pity if with such material as the class possesses '87 does not make at least as good a record this fall as '86 did last season...
...team making a touchdown under the very bar itself. Harvard was forced to a safety touchdown in the first three-quarters. The score by points count up 20 to 0 in favor of Andover. This defeat seems to dispirit the freshmen rather than to urge them to renewed effort. It is to be hoped that they will take this rebuke in the right light and go to work determined to wipe out the defeat in a victory over Yale. The team is as good as it was a day or two ago and no one need feel discouraged or withold...
Dartmouth will make an effort to reenter the intercollegiate base-ball league...
...also shows rare discernment when he remarks,-speaking of the "University Quarterly"-"its affairs were wound up without loss to its conductors-a somewhat rare circumstance in the death of a college journal." He also speaks in the highest terms of the "Lampoon,"-"the success that attended "Lampy's effort" in view of the usual fate of American humorous journals, is good evidence of the excellence of its work. Many of its bon mots and verses have been exceedingly clever, and some of its cartoons are worthy of Du Maurier, "and again, speaking of "the latest development in American college...