Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...effort is being made to unite the students in the various schools and colleges of New York city for social and religious purposes. It is styled the "Students' Movement" and is similar in character and purposes to the student organizations in London and Paris...
...examinations. Captain Sturgis called a meeting of candidates the other day but nobody appeared. It is not improbable that the team will undertake a kind of training different from that used heretofore in order to avoid if possible some of the risks of subjecting untrained men to violent effort. Just after the mid-years a captain will be appointed for the tug-of-war team and regular work begun. There are some good men in college and there is no reason to suppose that with careful training they cannot be made into a team good enough to beat Yale...
This is a very important matter both as regards comfort and health, especially during the mid-year period when most men find it absolutely necessary to spend many hours a week in the reading room and wish to use their energies in study, instead of squandering them in the effort, frequently vain, to keep awake. The building is an old one we know, and is not supplied with modern appliances yet it seems as though a little more care of the heating apparatus and a little more liberal admission of out door air might easily be secured...
...encouraging the very large class of poor who honestly and manfully strive to improve their own condition and to leave to their children happiness they never have themselves. Mr. White said that he was himself interested in some scheme for bettering the tenement houses in New York. The effort was a complete success simply as a business scheme. The improved buildings are built around a large interior court in such a manner that every room has a window. The buildings are arranged with outside stair cases, to avoid the dangers and discomforts of a huge wooden fire blower...
...opinion of the college will, of course, have the saying. From what I have learned in talking with a large number of experienced men on the subject, I should judge that this decision of the college would be largely in favor of instruction her delegates to make every effort at the intercollegiate athletic association convention to have the tug-of-war abolished. Dr. Sargent, in past years, has been faithfully quoted as opposed to this sport on the ground of its extreme danger, and there is any number of medical men who have declared themselves very strongly for a like...