Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with a vigorous body, every one has a peculiar temptation favored by the circumstances of his life. The stronger and richer the life, the stronger is the temptation. That it is natural or rather inevitable to the life is no excuse but rather a reason for special effort against it. If a man fights bravely and at last successfully against his temptation it may in reality become to him a tree of life, for the strength gained in fighting the temptation he might without it have never had. To conquer temptation man must bury all ambition, wealth and power...
...needs no commentary. But to the new-comers we wish to speak a word concerning these meetings. Aside from the pleasure to be derived from hearing interesting prose and verse read well, the subject of this first talk is really one quite worth attention. If a man makes no effort to acquire the ability to read and to speak well before he leaves college, the chances are that he never will. The fact that Mr. Copeland and Mr. Hayes are prepared to furnish voluntary instruction to those who desire it, adds to the desirability of attending the talk on Monday...
...Oxford street, Cambridge."ON the Mississippi," at the Columbia this week, the latest and most elaborate dramatic effort of William Haworth, is a thrilling story of adventure in Tennessee and New Orleans. The Ku Klux Klan figures prominently in the play, and a floating theatre on the river. The darkey singing, dancing and playing are of the best...
There are not a few among the new students who will find it of advantage to inform themselves with regard to the Foxcroft Club. The club is the result of an effort to provide a way for securing reasonably good board at a distinctly low price. It is as much one of the University organizations as is Memorial Hall, but purposes to accommodate men whose means would not be adapted to the prices at Memorial. It has been of valuable service to students in past years...
...began by saying that I had no wish to renew the Battle of the Books. I cannot bring myself to look upon the literatures of the ancient and modern worlds as antagonists, but rather as friendly rivals in the effort to tear as many as may be from the barbarizing plutolatry which seems to be so rapidly supplanting the worship of what alone is lovely and enduring. No, they are not antagonists, but by their points of disparity, of likeness, or contrast, they can be best understood, perhaps understood only through each other. The scholar must have them both...