Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...College House.HOLLIS STREET THEATRE. - Beginning tonight, "The Girl I Left Behind Me' will be the attraction at the Hollis Street Theatre. It is seldom that so thrilling a play is seen on the stage, and yet it is absolutely free from claptrap and melodramatic effort. Those who saw it at the Columbia last year will remember the intense enthusiasm that is always aroused by the arrival of the cavalry to rescue the beleaguered party in the stockade, and how this feat was sccomplished without the dring of a gun. The attack of the Indians could be plainly heard...
...system of charitable work in Boston, which received its impulse from the organization of charities in London 30 years ago, is today the most perfect in the world. It aims to enlist personal effort and sympathy to cooperate with organization. Whether such an attempt can be successfully made in cities as large as New York and London is an unsolved problem...
...Church itself feels this influence; it has made mistakes but now looks forward to the time when by the cooperative effort of every religion, it may be helped to relieve mankind of its burdens. Thus victory is certain. In the blackness of the night the day dawns...
...should they not show it? Of course something will be said about "advertising," but a good thing cannot be made bad by being called names. Harvard is a great University and can do much for any man whether he is an athlete, or a scholar, or both. Every honorable effort to increase her numbers is to increase the scope of her influence...
...Moliere in his Precieuses Ridicules, which was called upon to render judgment upon the new play "Polyeuctes" by P. Corneille. Though even these dry, narrow critics were carried away by the power of the play, they felt that it would never do to encourage so original and imaginative an effort, and accordingly they condemned it because its author had had the audacity to introduce the Christian religion as an important factor in his work...