Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interest to note that while the Corporation, Overseers and Faculty are trying to secure a greater prominence to high scholarship in the University, the graduate students at Harvard in cooperation with those of other institutions are taking the initiative in an effort to give to the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy, for which many of them are working, a significance which lax requirements in some universities and the granting of one or both degrees honoris causa in all, have in some measure destroyed...
...must be borne in mind that the effort of the committee at present is not to create a sentiment in favor of the proposed club, except so far as the project commends itself. What they are trying to get at now is what the members of the University actually think of the plan. The latter has been well stated by a graduate interested in the movement in these words: "We aim simply at giving a definite amount of convenience for a definite annual sum; we don't dream of manufacturing sociability; but we believe that if eight hundred or more...
...managers of the intercollegiate chess tournament which is to take place in New York during the vacation have issued a large poster announcing the tournament and stating a price of admission. Here is an admirable effort to give to a contest of brains a prominence not unlike that of an athletic game. While it will not attract as much popular interest as the more spectacular event, it is well deserving of support and Harvard men who are in New York at the time will do well to give their representatives the encouragement of their presence...
...outcome of the debate last week between Yale and Princeton is another indication of the fact to which we called attention recently, namely, that Yale is waking up in this branch of intercollegiate competition. The victory will be a stronger stimulus to effort in this direction than anything that has been done yet. Harvard must recognize the signs of the times and profit by them...
...especially fitting that young men who are seeking cultivation in orther things should learn the lesson, that things spiritual, more than all else, require gradual, painful progress; that religious development deserves eager effort. If such an effort is heartily made, the beauty and truth of God will bless the undertaking...