Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...series of shot putting contests which has been held for some weeks past has done much to improve the work of the men, but it will be necessary to put forth some very extraordinary effort in order to make a place in this event at the Mott Haven games. In addition to the regular order of spring handicap games which are to be held March 27, on Franklin Field, there will be class relay races-with the object in view of bringing out new material for this event...
...unusually good. Perhaps the best of the short poems is "Through the Mist," by Walter Winsor,- a pleasing and vivid description. "A Song of June," by R. T. Fisher is a charming bit of rhyme, although the subject has long been a well-worn one. "Atlantis," a more ambitious effort by J. F. Brice, is certainly creditable, and would be very good but for its occasional vagaries of metre...
...play to be given in Sanders Theatre, on March 22, was written by Professor Wendell, for private performance in Boston. The play endeavors to set forth, somewhat in the manner of an Elizabethan chronicle history, the events which led to the failure of Sir Walter Ralegh's final effort to secure for England the possession of the country now called Venezuela. These are chiefly recorded in Ralegh's "Discovery of Guiana," and in his "Apology...
...serious academic recognition. At their suggestion, the Department of English has invited the company who acted in private to reproduce it at Cambridge. To those who care for the history of the English drama, this performance may offer a not quite usual interest. For it is a serious effort, on the part of a modern student, to revive many of the effects which were characteristic of the English stage in the early Seventeenth Century...
...they should join the squad without further delay; for this preliminary cage practice in sliding and fielding is of real practical value in preparing them for out-door work. The Freshman class turned out a good eleven last fall after a poor beginning and must now make the effort to do the same in baseball...