Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interesting to see how thoroughly awakened Yale is to her need for improvement in the art of debate. The last contest with Harvard has apparently made defeat do longer endurable, and every effort is being made to provide such training as may prevent its recurrence. In these efforts both faculty and students are united. The students are anxious to remove what they now begin to consider the disgrace of repeated defeats, while the Faculty seek to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education. Their latest move has been a particular request...
...they will reform and become pure, religious men. They are mistaken. There is no short cut from sin to righteousness, and the only thing that can atone for their past is a complete change of inner feeling, which will not come at command. Good aspirations must precede any effort to reform, and the starting point must be the change of the very purpose of one's life...
Several students interested in music are making an effort to resuscitate the old Brown University brass band under the leadership of F. E. Horton...
...schedule of the freshman baseball nine is being gradually filled out and the only important games which have not yet been arranged are the two with Yale. The two following dates have recently been made: Brown '98, at Cambridge, May 13; Amherst '98, at Cambridge, May 15. An effort will be made to play Andover and it is hoped that circumstances will allow a satisfactory date to be arranged...
...lately changed from the starboard to the port side of the boat, but this would hardly account for his lifelessness and evident slowness of movement which breaks up the time of the four bow men. Manning at No. 2 is also slow and exhibits a painfully weak effort with his legs...