Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is a sentiment, wide-spread among both past and present members of the University, that the existing system of awarding scholarships is not satisfactory. An effort will be made next year to inquire more diligently into the needs of applicants, and this reform is plainly right. Far more important reforms are, however, needed. The system, as it is established, is on the whole well executed; sober complaint is made not against the execution of the system but rather against the system itself...
Last year at this time fourteen hundred baseball season tickets had been sold; only three hundred and four have been sold this year. Such support is not deserved. The nine is playing a good game, and, at any rate, students ought to recognize what a hard effort the captain and players are making. A large attendance at games with the accompanying enthusiasm is a palpable help to the nine; would not the students seem unappreciative if they should make the loss of this help one more obstacle for the nine to meet...
Leaving out of account the crudities unavoidable in a purely amateur performance and the disproportionate prominence that any public effort not in the common line almost necessarily acquires, the production of the PHORMIO at Sanders Theatre is well worthy the attention of persons interested in classical education,- a category which ought to include all persons interested in any education...
...games committee yesterday decided upon the events which will be run in the invitation handicap meeting scheduled for Saturday, May 5. Every effort will be made this year to make this meeting exciting and the limits which have been placed on the handicaps are likely to bring in a notable lot of men. Three handsome prizes, similar to those given two years ago, will be given in each event. Arrangements are being made to have the score of the Harvard-Princeton baseball game which occurs on the same afternoon at Princeton bulletinned by innings on the field...
...ambition of all students interested in debating, but of many other societies to develop inexperienced speakers. There are very many men in the University who would be glad to practice debate, if only better facilities could be afforded, and there is good reason to hope that the effort to form debating clubs of students interested in particular branches of study would not be spent in vain. Sharp work, however, is needed...