Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...association would of course get money damages in case the railroad commissioners approved the route, but as a field for Yale's athletic sports the grounds would be good for nothing. That would be a great pity, as much money, time and effort has been expended in securing and laying out the place. The work has only reached the first stage of completion, when the whole project is threatened with de struction...
...conducted in many instances upon entirely different plans, and in their exchange columns are able to find many different suggestions as to how other papers should be carried on. We find that the tendency in our opinion, especially among our western college papers, is too much towards literary effort, that is too much space is frequently given for essays, orations, such productions as we listen to every week in our different class rhetorical exercises. In too many instances these labored productions prove tiresome and entirely without interest. Subjects are frequently chosen which, from time immemorial, have been the favorite themes...
Many persons object to the time and effort given to athletics by college students. The town of Sharon had a winter school where for several years the big boys had it all their own way, thrashing and turning out of doors the alleged masters, until the committee engaged John Sykes, an under-sized graduate of Harvard, but over-sized in muscle and energy far beyond what his appearance indicated. He opened school with a conciliatory address, asking the co-operation of the pupils, but ending with a firm expression of his intentions and expectations. Very soon after which Bill Gates...
...Lacrosse interest was represented at the recent convention at Staten Island, and Yale sent a team to New York to compete for the Oelrich cup in Saturday's tournament. Quite a great deal of interest has been manifested in the sport and a strong effort was made to carry the trophy to New Haven. Yale met with the University of New York in the first drawing...
...handicaps proved to be very satisfactory, and the Athletic Association may well be congratulated on its effort. In a word the meeting was a great success. Mr. T. J. Coolidge's starting was the best ever seen here. The officers were: Referee, Dr. Sargent ; judges, Professor Byerly, Mr. R. D. Sears, and Mr. W. R. Trask. The time-keepers were Mr. Church and Mr. Lathrop, U. A. C., and Mr. C. A. Sawyer; measurers, Messrs. Baker and Storrow; scorer, Mr. R. D. Smith clerk of the course, Mr. W. Burr...