Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...easily off the 100 yds. mark in 5.05 1-2, Strong second, from the 60 yds. in 5.12, and Jack third, 80 yds., in 5.20. Walker, who has run under five minutes, ran in good form but though he gained some 40 yds, was apparently scared from naking an effort by having men ahead...
...living interest in our government, and developing the material out of which statesmen are made broadening the opinions of men of many states, and the very men who could if they would, and should if they could, have an influence for the better in politics, it is worth an effort in this year of grace...
...project of instituting class championships in the fall and winter meetings. Class flags or trophies of some sort, to be given to the class winning the most victories, would arouse a healthy class feeling. Each class would do it sutmost to bring forward all available candidates in the effort to win this trophy. This rivalry between the classes would increase the number of entries and have a direct bearing upon the success of all the meetings of the association. It would benefit the H. A. A. in somewhat the same manner, although in a modified degree, as the class races...
...made, as the final clinching argument, which can not be gainsaid, that three of the undergraduates are engaged to their professors. The most perverse opponent of co-education and the higher education of women can not continue incredulous after such monumental success as this has crowned the four years' effort of the Annex. If such a result had been confined to the experiment entered into with such fear and tremboing at Cambridge, it might be considered something phenomenal out of the natural order of things, and therefore worthy of no particular attention except as a curiosity. But it happens that...
Concerning Dartmouth's proposed effort to be re-instated in the college base-ball league the Princetonian says very soundly : "It is no argument in her favor that Harvard has not done well this year. Besides being a reasonable distance away, Harvard is a representative university, and whether her nine be good or bad for a particular year, no college can be said to have the championship unless Harvard has competed against...