Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been made for it has not been wasted. Athletics can do no greater benefit to any university than to be the means of quickening the sense of common interest among its members and of showing the necessity for staunch and active support from all in every wise and honorable effort...
...their effort to find a plan that should be at once just and economical, and give comfort to the members, and which caused them to defer unnecessarily the building of a new hall...
...they were simply a number of athletes joined into teams for their own purosse only. They work because they believe that the University regards them as representatives, is interested in their work, is concerned over the results. The assurance of this interest is a great inducement for hard effort, and when the assurance is weakened, inevitably the effort is weakened also...
...game showed what effort will do,-effort on the part of the nine and effort on the part of the students as well. The support given was magnificent. The clean, strong, enthusiastic, persistent cheering, starting with the first play and not failing till the game was won, had not a little to do with the result. If ever a student felt that no one but the teams had anything to do with winning victories, he need only have been present at the Pennsylvania and Princeton games wholly to change his mind. United effort is needed...
...ruled off on the third lap as he was taking the lead. He had heard no caution, nor had any one seen one given as the judge, Mr. Frank P. Murray, asserted it had been. Phillips returned to the track, thinking he had been misjudged, but in the effort to overtake the leaders he ran and was taken off again. In his absence the race was won by Houghton of Amherst in 7m. 14 3-5s. Thrall of Yale took second by a spurt past Drew of Harvard...