Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...significance of this effort to send the best scholars of the coast to Cambridge, in the face of the jealousies of a State University, cannot be overlooked. The Harvard Club of San Francisco must be credited with a determined and a successful effort to advance Harvard's interests in the Far West...
...make prominent that it is not because of his peculiar belief that we propose this addition, but because, if such a man comes here as our regular preachers do come, in the desire to help, and not to advocate certain doctrines, the fact will have great atrength in our effort to induce freedom of thought...
Casement and Janeway, of Princeton, have entered the Columbia Law School, and an effort will be made to induce them to play on the eleven...
...overcome. Their tackling shows an improvement over their practice work, but even if a man tackled low he allowed his man to gain a yard or two by crawling along on the ground. The blocking in the rush line is lamentably weak, the opponents coming through with scarcely an effort, at the same time making enormous holes in the line. A great improvement in this respect must be made, for a team with a weak rush line cannot accomplish much. The worst and most fatal fault of all is that of losing the ball. There is no excuse for this...
...close to the river and only five minutes' walk from Harvard Square. Formerly the members of the club were obliged to go to Watertown for their shoot, but the land for the present place was obtained, and the new club house built and fitted out last spring by special effort on the part of the club. Matches are shot with Yale every year; Harvard has won two out of the three that have thus far been contested. Other matches with local clubs are arranged throughout the year, besides the regular weekly, monthly and class matches. At the weekly matches first...